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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.
There are no ads in Outlook!
There are ads in the free Outlook.com web account.
There are no ads in the Office365 that includes custom domain, email, Sharepoint file storage, webbased office apps... for $6/month.
Google Apps offers a near identical list of services for $5/month.
But, we're supposed to be impressed that Outlook.com - for $4/month - will offer email only without ads but with custom domain and nothing else. And they have the unmitigated gall to compare an email only option to Google Apps?
Fuck you ignorant fucks! This service will die or there will be price changes across the board for Microsoft because, as is, this make no fucking sense!
Yeah, right. MS only scans the emails to improve experience and data monetizing purposes.