Appending Hotmail to Outlook has always been a bad idea!  Terrible.

Outlook is junky, spotty and works in fits and starts. Has always been that way, especially when attached to any other program of any kind.

Now MSN is paying for it.

You will lose zillions of clients.

I recommended Hotmail to many new users, but never the new Outlook system. See why? Yuk!

I need my calendar back, and my phone book, ASAP.

If this happens again, I am gone. Probably fully to Gmail, tho' Chrome has been compromised with ad- and malware around the edges.

Bye for now, maybe for good.