Does Office 365 Home Premium come with ad-free outlook.com e-mail?

Seeing as when you go to upgrade outlook.com it gives you the option to select office 365 and when you click learn more it says "Remove banner ads from your inbox so you can enjoy distraction-free emailing." about 'outlook.com and office 365' I would say we are supposed to have ad free outlook.com

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Ad-free Outlook.com does NOT come with your Home 365 subscription.  You will still get ads as if you were a regular "free webmail" user.

Apparently Microsoft's view is that Outlook.com and your purchase and reliance on client side programs such as Outlook 2016, the use of which you are technically and exclusively purchasing by subscribing, are separate sub-MS-ecosystems.  It would stand to reason that once you subscribe to 365 and thus officially indoctrinate yourself as part of the MS line of working that ad-free Outlook.com would be included.  It's not an unreasonable expectation.  If you sign up with GSuites (formally Google Apps), for example, this is exactly what happens.  Ads across all services go away. For $5/month you have a business relationship (not a "free web user" relationship) that includes e-mail and a line of productivity applications.   You feel like you're actually doing serious work.

That Microsoft would stutter, hesitate, or struggle with the same perspective is disturbing.

I've had to answer this question for myself. Please forgive th salt in my last comments, but it stings like I said. But no, ad free outlook.com is not included with office 365. Its going to cost me another £15 a year.

I'm sure I'd previously seen adverts that said it was included. Sure of it.

Anyway, I'm still huming and haring about getting it. Anybody else think its worth it?

Hi Richard,

I just had a thought: there is an email provider that provides webmail and productivity / cloud apps for free without advertising: iCloud from Apple.

And doing a bit of joined up thinking myself: even though I think MS is OK to charge extra for ad-free outlook.com and they have a lot of smart people working for them... I don't think they thought through the behavioural perception of consumers and / or a competitive response to the iCloud proposition.

Regards, Siôn.