Why can’t I forward emails to anyone?

I've even tried forwarding things to myself at my Hotmail and Yahoo addresses, and nothing shows up. In the mail settings there is a 'forwarding' link, but all that seems to do is enable me to forward everything to another address. As are many, I was very disappointed when Hotmail became Outlook. To say it's harder to use is a gross understatement. As with most things Microsoft, the mindset seems to be, "if it works we'll fix it until it doesn't, then create something new-that also doesn't work. But different is better, right?"