{"id":231939,"date":"2026-02-23T22:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/microsoft-says-bug-in-classic-outlook-hides-the-mouse-pointer"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:31:22","slug":"microsoft-says-bug-in-classic-outlook-hides-the-mouse-pointer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/microsoft-says-bug-in-classic-outlook-hides-the-mouse-pointer","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says bug in classic Outlook hides the mouse pointer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-says-bug-in-classic-outlook-hides-the-mouse-pointer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is investigating a known issue that causes the mouse pointer to disappear in the classic Outlook desktop email client for some users.<\/p>\n<p>This bug has been acknowledged almost two months after the first reports started surfacing online, with users saying that Outlook became unusable after the mouse pointer vanished while using the app.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mouse just stopped being visible while I am using Outlook, and this is very, very, frustrating because my permission wasn\u2019t given to make these changes, and now I can\u2019t find anything, can\u2019t open emails, can\u2019t copy and paste, and the list goes on and on,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/answers\/questions\/5646909\/why-does-my-mouse-arrow-disappear-while-using-outl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one customer noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is investigating a known issue that causes the mouse pointer to disappear in the classic Outlook desktop email client for some users. This bug has been acknowledged almost two months after the first reports started surfacing online, with users saying that Outlook became unusable after the mouse pointer vanished while using the app. \u201cMy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}