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this advertising colom down the right hand side of my Email outlook page...driving me crazee to point of IM CLOSING MY ACCOUNT....such a short space to see e-mail colom in middle of it all...rediculous! I dont WANT adverts...gone to all the OPT OUT pages...STILL THERE
Configuring preferences and options in Outlook.com
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The ads help keep the outlook.com service free. You can remove the ads - by paying for Ad-free Outlook.com. It costs about $20 per year. Have a look here:
You said, "If you're using free Windows Live account, it is by default that there’s an advertisement on the right hand side of your Windows Live Hotmail page and to remove it permanently, you'll have to upgrade your account to either Hotmail Plus or MSN Premium account",
And you quoted "how do you think they pay for the service when it is free"
If you buy a copy of windows this should cover all the cost involved, its not exactly expensive to produce an email service. Therefore it is comparable because if you paid for your windows it should be free. If you didn't...then yes you should pay a small amount!
Yea I believe you might be referring to a different concept as in a free program like for instance live mail "the program" not an online only email service as outlook.com or Hotmail.com.
And even free programs from third parties often have adds in them and so do other online email services like Yahoo/ gmail/........................................
Some are less obvious for sure I personally can't tell where gmail adds are :p
M$ adds are in your face and animated = complete intrusion and can be blocked with many methods all of which are free ;)
I do not think we should have to pay for the removal of the ad panel in the right hand corner of our email.
It's not your email system. It belongs to Microsoft and they can do anything they want to it. Displaying the ads generates income to run outlook.com, just the way some apps on your phone (Windows Phone, Android and iPhone) have ads for the free version, or you can pay for an ad-free version. Heck, we have ads during our TV programs to pay for the production of the TV programs.