About three weeks ago I logged on to Hotmail and ended up with an "OUTLOOK" Display. I could see my emails but could not open, send or make the help functions work.  I "could not" open help to request help. I was using IE8. A forum member suggested using Firefox which works.  I access all others Internet Stuff via IE8 and would like to continue doing so. I have seen comments about some type of upgrade/move to Outlook and can not seem to make my account work.  I have a secondary hotmail account that does not. at the present time, have the same problem.  I have a lot of folders in my primary email which I can not access via IE8. I have read of many other users experiencing the same problem and am wondering if it is going to be fixed.
I have sent off a lot of Hotmail emails in the past few months.  If I switch from Hotmail to Outlook, will the recipients be able respond to my origional Hotmail address?

I earlier asked how to convert back from Outlook to normal E-mail. The message I received allowed me to make this conversion successfully.

When I returned to my normal E-mail account, my messges were now all linked by subject. Is it possible to undo this linkage? How? thank you.

All of my incoming e-mails are coming in as daylight savings time and not standard time on Office for Mac 2011.
I can't properly open PDF attachments in Windows 7. I get a message about file conversion with 3 choices and whichever I choose does not work. The choices are Windows default, MS-Dos and a choice of others. These attachments do open properly in firefox. Any suggestions?