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Microsoft Trials Outlook Premium For $4 Per Month, With No Ads and Custom Domains (pcworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the sweet-spot dept.

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.

4 of 108 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Everything is a Subscription by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Fuck subscriptions

  2. Re:Irony of Microsoft by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It isn't ironic at all. Drug dealers do the same thing: first hit is free. It works.

  3. Or I could just keep using Thunderbird by AndyKron · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or I could just keep using Thunderbird with no ads for free like I've been doing since it was born?

  4. After the way Microsof treated Windows 7 users... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... I no longer trust Microsoft enough to give them any more money.