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Microsoft Trials Outlook Premium For $4 Per Month, With No Ads and Custom Domains (pcworld.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: Microsoft is testing a premium version of Outlook.com that removes the ads and supports custom domains for email addresses. According to Brad Sams at Thurrott.com, Outlook Premium is free for one year and then costs $3.99 per month during the trial phase, though it's only available by invite for now. The service appears to combine two features that Microsoft offers or has offered in the past. The first is an ad-free version of Outlook, which is already available today as a $20 per year upgrade. The second is custom domains, which allow users to enjoy Outlook.com's features but with a personalized email address.
Outlook Premium could also slightly undercut Google's Apps for Work plans, which support custom domains for $5 per user per month. It also offers a middle ground between ad-free Outlook and a full Office 365 subscription. While Outlook Premium may be tempting for a select few, general users may be hard-pressed to pay anything for Outlook, let alone $4 per month.
Seriously? Who actually sees ads at this point? If you aren't running an Adblocker you are just setting yourself up for malware and worse. I haven't seen an online ad in 10 years.
It doesnt require an email address at outlook.com at all - my Windows 10 account uses an MS Account that has a Gmail address.
Creating a new account on Windows 10 REQUIRES an e-mail address at Outlook.com
Utter nonsense. You can create a local account on Windows 10 that is NOT tied to an email address or Microsoft account. Admittedly, it's not easy to find, but it it available during the initial user setup.
Creating a new account on Windows 10 REQUIRES an e-mail address at Outlook.com
Actually you can still add a local user account during or after setup.
See also this and this.
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Outlook.com does not scan your emails to offer up contextual ads like what GMail and Yahoo does. See https://www.microsoft.com/en-U... Full Disclosure: I work for Microsoft on Outlook.com
You're forgetting the option of using Free Software. No subscriptions, no spyware, I couldn't got back to using software which I have no control.
My windows 10 account isn't linked to any email address. It's entirely local.
Perhaps you're a little retarded and can't follow the on-screen instructions when adding users?
You must be young. In the 90s, Office was very expensive, but new computers often had "free" copies of Word bundled with or preinstalled on the computer. Microsoft kept this up until they got most of Word Perfect's market share. Then they started bundling Microsoft Works, making Works less compatible with Word, and charging for Word and Office. After they had the entire word processing market they stopped bundling any office-type software with their computers and made you buy it.
Using Outlook.com for email is a bad idea. So much legitimate email is never delivered, and you won't know what you're missing. It doesn't go to spam or junk or anything. They just delete email and don't warn you. You might as well set your primary MX record to 127.0.0.1 because email with outlook is about that useful.
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