Microsoft’s Latest Shitshow: Outlook Takes Your Mouse Pointer Hostage

Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when you thought Outlook couldn’t get any more broken, those bastards in Redmond announce that the goddamn mouse pointer disappears when you hover over links in emails. Yes, you read that right – those geniuses have managed to lose your fucking cursor.

The bug is hitting 64-bit Outlook clients on Windows 10 and 11 after recent OS updates. You hover over a hyperlink expecting that little hand icon, and POOF – your pointer vanishes into the digital ether like my will to live on a Monday morning. Microsoft’s official response? It’s a “third-party issue” caused by “changes in OS functionality.” Translation: “We broke it but we’re blaming someone else because accountability is for pussies.”

Their brilliant workarounds include: pressing ESC (because obviously that’s intuitive), moving your mouse to another monitor (if you’re one of those wankers with multiple screens), or clicking a different email and coming back. Yeah, thanks Microsoft – why don’t I just sacrifice a goat while I’m at it? That might be more effective.

And get this – they have no fucking timeline for a fix. It’s just one more gem in Outlook’s greatest hits collection, alongside broken Enterprise Vault add-ins, emails that grey out if you click too fast (apparently using Outlook at normal human speed is too much to ask), and a search function that works about as well as a chocolate teapot.

The cherry on this shit sundae? Microsoft won’t even properly explain what’s causing it. “Changes in OS functionality” my arse. More like they couldn’t be bothered to test their fucking software before shoving another update down our throats.

Read the full bullshit here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-bug-in-classic-outlook-hides-the-mouse-pointer/

Anecdote: Had a user call me in a full-blown panic because their “mouse had gone invisible.” I let them squirm for 10 minutes while I “checked the server logs,” then told them the cursor had been promoted to cloud-based status and they’d need to upgrade to Cursor 365 for $15/month to see it again. They actually believed me for a solid 45 seconds before I got bored and told them to press ESC. The disappointment in their voice when the pointer reappeared was the highlight of my fucking week.

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