Microsoft Launches Outlook.com Premium Email Service, Costs $20 Per Year (thurrott.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:00AM from the paying-for-emails dept.

Outlook.com Premium email service, which Microsoft began testing in October, is now available to all. You get the following features with this paid service, via a report: Outlook.com Premium provides a number of useful features: (1) Custom domain support for five users.

(2) Information sharing: Outlook Premium helps you easily share calendars, contacts, and documents (via OneDrive) between those five users.

(3) Ad-free inbox: Like Ad-Free Outlook.com, Outlook Premium offers no "banner ads" for a "distraction-free view of your email, photos, and documents."

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Hmm, marketing dept confusion on the value add? by cant_get_a_good_nick · 2017-02-14 04:07 · Score: 5, Insightful

So, when you hear the Ad people talk it's "we add value by presenting opportunities for consumers" and the deep data mining is justified with "we use data to target unique ads that will delight our users"... ... and now we have a payment plan to not have ads. Admitting "yeah, ads suck so much people will pay us not to show them" Not that MS still won't datamine the crap out of you in other contexts though.