Why is Hotmail Spam Filtering So Bad???

wrong i have reported them for years and still get hourly Anderson Windows spam.. outlook is ****

Agreed, it's not great, but I've heard similar complaints from gmail users.

What's especially odd is that 99% of spam is plainly obviously spam and doesn't even come close to looking like it's genuine - to a human user anyway.

And to let emails that are replies to messages you've previously sent out from the same service go to spam just strikes me as a bug, pure and simple.

Does it help? I continually mark items as junk, and yet I get IDENTICAL emails day in, day out for the same thing.

Outlook/hotmail filtering is absolutely hot garbage, even marking junk as focus items.

Gmail is leagues ahead. With the amount of backing MS has, this should have been dealt with a long time ago.

Its actually mind blowing how a company as large as Microsoft can be 20 years behind in their ability to accomplish anything. Their blatant incompetence is staggering. If they literally had ONE engineer working on spam filtering they could have fixed this by now.

They sincerely do not care.

I'll get an email from someone with my last name, someone who ive sent emails to hundreds of times before, someone that ive white listed 10 times already and it will be sent to the junk folder, yet the all caps email about free <removed> pills gets sent to my inbox. Its literally worse than if they were to just flip a coin each time I got an email.

Microsoft is a joke, and they do not care about Hotmail/Outlook any longer. The free version we've had for years (decades?) only currently exists for them to get you to upgrade to the paid version. Which then will apparently get your spam gone. Backstory: I've been using Hotmail for 25 years. I don't think I received ten spam e-mails the first 15 years I used it. You kinda took it for granted. Then they started to come in. Then a few years ago it was an all out onslaught and it's been a comedy show since. Mine seem to almost always get the Spam folder, but to me my folders are my folders (maybe it's OCD) and I don't want this spam coming in anywhere. What's the difference anyway? They are getting through. Into one of your folders. And this company embarrassingly will not allow us to front-end wall block these clowns.
So..."Reporting" the spam does nothing for the user. Reporting it as phishing does nothing. Reporting "A Concern" and writing out a detailed concern does nothing. No one is reading those. Every report goes to "osemar@microsoft.com" and for at least five years of begging and pleading to this address I have never received one response (it's become a game now, I would guess I have reported 5,000 spams, all individually). So...we next move to Creating Rules. It's been an interesting experience with that as well. I will get the Anderson Windows, Yeti Coolers, Costco Gift Card, etc spam over and over. So I will create Rules for these and do them precisely so they are filtered to Deleted folder. They never get filtered. I filter by keyword in Title, keyword in body, sender, etc etc and I have not had any success. It's onslaught of spam, and while any sane person would have left Hotmail by now I am almost at a point where this is such a car wreck that you can't take your eyes away. Perhaps Microsoft doesn't care (or actually is in cahoots with some of these spammers, as has been rumored before) - but as one of the world's biggest companies why provide a service with loyal users and not pay it any attention at all? Don't tell us to submit spam report (you don't read them). Don't have an option to report a concern to a specific person (he isn't reading them). Don't have an option to provide feedback to Microsoft (they've never responded). Don't provide us filtering we can do on our own (it doesn't work).