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Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 4 people found this reply helpful. I received a message also to pay for next year, but the message is referring to a Windows Live Hotmail Plus subscription?

The included 10 GB of email storage refers to storage on Microsoft' Servers or the Cloud, not on your Computer which is limited to your Hard Drive size. Here is a copy of my 1 Jan 16 email message sent to me from Microsoft: Bold and Underlining added by me! Please retain a copy of this message for your records. Here is a description of the service:.

The Ad-free Outlook. No third party advertising. Just feature tips and product info from Microsoft. Refund only available if cancelled within one month from purchase and automatically renews yearly unless cancelled.

You will receive a renewal letter 30 days prior to the renewal date. This is the renewal letter or message!? To review or update your payment options, sign in to Microsoft account - Billing and select a payment option that you would like to update.

If you do not want to renew this subscription, you must sign in to Microsoft account - Billing Subscriptions and cancel the subscription before the renewal date shown above. Note: This message was sent from an unmonitored address. Please do not respond to this message. To receive notifications at a different email address, sign in to your Microsoft account - Billing profile.

Suggest you check or review what MS or Outlook may take away, if you do not pay for your Hotmail Plus or Ad Free Outlook accounts for next year, as their email above may not include everything as it is pretty vague or unclear! I did and Posted it below:. Should you upgrade to Ad-free Outlook. Hotmail Plus? Here are great Tips from LoginTips. Like Yahoo offering Yahoo Mail Plus, Microsoft has a premium version of its free webmail service: it is called "", and used to be known as "".

The new name doesn't quite do justice to the offering, as you'll learn in this tutorial - even less so because the new ad format is as unobtrusive as it gets ads in the old Hotmail interface were hard to miss! Since Microsoft has legal representation in most -if not all- states, you'll be charged sales taxes on top of that.

With increasing competition between Webmail providers AOL Mail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and the others , the original benefits have become somewhat obsolete. In our opinion, the true advantage of paying for ad-free Outlook is actually not the ads, but the fact that your account will never expire.

A regular Hotmail. The motivation is four-fold:. The bottom line answer, in our opinion, is a resounding "". Even if you operate your own website we do : , with control over hosting and email accounts we do! At that time, you'll need to download all your mail, and re-upload it to the new mail server harder and more tedious than it sounds.

Note: neither AOL Mail nor Gmail currently offer a premium service that locks your email address Google offers something similar, but its history of regularly killing services makes us hesitant. So, given everything we've said above, Ad-free Outlook. Once logged into your account, click on Settings gear icon in the top right corner of the page , and select " Options ".

On the next screen, click on the " Upgrade to Ad-free Outlook. This link will open in a new window in Internet Explorer, you can hold down the and keys on your keyboard while clicking a link, to temporarily override your popup blocker! Then, follow the rest of the instructions: it's a simple check-out and online payment form, currently hosted on signup.

Your subscription renews yearly, on the same date. You can cancel at any point before the next renewal date, and your credit card won't be billed for that next year. At that time, you can manage your subscription by clicking on the first link in that same section, labeled "". This is also how you cancel your membership - from the new Account window that opens. Unless you're in tech and even then! It uses the same core product name across offerings, heavily uses , and when it comes to email -be it webmail or desktop email programs- things get even worse.

Let's get started:. There are two ways to check your emails: if you do it inside a web browser Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc. The word "" is just short for "" - just another way of saying "". The screenshot on the left shows Microsoft's current webmail offering, called Outlook. It may look a bit different from your version, because we're paying yearly to get the upgraded version, called " Ad-Free Outlook.

Note: you use Hotmail's "mail server settings" , a special set of codes, to allow your email application to "talk" to Microsoft's mail servers. The screenshot on the right shows Windows Live Mail, Microsoft's free email program for desktops - more on that later.

Despite the multiple names, Microsoft only has two webmail offerings: the one for consumer is called Outlook. If you check your Hotmail account using a mobile device's web browser, things will look different because you are using the mobile version of Hotmail.

The screenshot on the left shows the mobile version of Outlook. Not to be confused with the free Microsoft Outlook app available in the App Store! The second offering is Outlook Web Access. In , Microsoft acquired one of the first online email services, which was called "": that's a play on words for geeks, because the capitalized letters "" are the name of the markup language used to design web pages " HTML " stands for "". Microsoft changed its name to simply "", and offered it for free; MSN , the name of the company's online offerings when the web was becoming mainstream, stands for "".

On the left is a screenshot of one of the very earliest version of MSN Hotmail image source: Wikipedia. Back when Microsoft was battling legal issues for alleged antitrust practices, the company started the "" division to create software and services for Windows users - a way of adding value to the operating system, without appearing to remove choice from users.

Initially, Microsoft planned on renaming Hotmail "", but ultimately kept the well-known brand in the name. At the same period, it was launching a free email program to-be-called "", which ultimately became known as "". On the left is a screenshot of the webmail offering, when it was called "" - one of the most beautiful executions of a web-based email system, which we were sad to see retired in Windows Mail: Microsoft actually gave the same name of " Windows Mail " to different email programs: the first is the Outlook Express successor that shipped bundled with Windows Vista.

It does include adaptive spam filters and defense mechanisms against phishing attempts, but doesn't add much to the already mature offering that was Outlook Express. It is possible, but complicated, to run Windows Mail on Windows 7 - so it's, really, only usable on Windows Vista.

Check out our Windows Mail tutorial. It is more a personal information manager PIM than just an email program. It includes a calendar, advanced contact manager, tasks management, and more.

Outlook was the last version to use standard menus; with Outlook , Microsoft introduced "", an interface element that combines menus and toolbars into one. It refined it in Outlook ; Outlook , the current version, is virtually identical for most users, but with a plain and eye-tiring interface even with the darkest color scheme available.

Conclusion: If you plan on using a Microsoft email account from a web browser, Outlook. On the Windows desktop, a good choice for a free email program is Windows Live Mail , especially if you are using Windows Vista or later so that you can run the latest version. On mobile devices, which all have good built-in mobile mail apps, you can search the App Store or Google Play store for the Outlook app , or alternative mobile mail clients.

Windows Live Hotmail, as it is officially known, gets its revenues from the ads displayed alongside your emails; you are under no obligation to pay for Hotmail, and Hotmail Plus is an optional service that makes your email experience much more enjoyable.

The probably most noteworthy, and perhaps best selling point, of Hotmail Plus, is that it disables the ads: you get all the functionality of the original Hotmail, with more features described below , but absolutely no ads anywhere. The rules of the game have somewhat changed since Hotmail became "Outlook. Webmail providers offer so much for free accounts nowadays, that it becomes hard to justify paying extra for a premium account.

Or does it? Hint, read the linked tutorial :. As mentioned above, Hotmail Plus comes without any ads displayed alongside your emails: this makes the Hotmail experience a lot more enjoyable: the screens are less cluttered, and pages load faster since Hotmail Plus does not have to download the graphical banner ads the regular Hotmail has to. This also makes reading your emails quite a bit less stressful, since many of these banner ads are animated, and the movement is very distracting when you are trying to concentrate on reading your emails - no such problem with Hotmail Plus.

All the following are free upgrades you get with your Hotmail Plus account, in addition to removing the ads. The last section of this tutorial will show you how to sign up with Hotmail Plus if you are convinced.

Note that Hotmail Plus does not offer you free tech support from Hotmail or anything like that - it is the same email service, minus the ads, and with the following free upgrades after the yearly fee is paid. I would like to renew my Windows Live Hotmail Subscription that has lapsed. I have searched everywhere on different sites with no success. I have up graded my profile and would like to be able to send more emails. I would like to renew my Windows Live Hotmail Plus Subscription which would expire in a few weeks time.

So, I signed in Microsoft account-Billing and selected payment option. We've designed Outlook. Schedule and manage appointments, meetings, or events. See details about contacts when you hover over their name.

Prioritize your tasks with Microsoft To Do. Locate messages, people, and documents. Backed by enterprise-grade security Outlook works around the clock to help protect your privacy and keep your inbox free of clutter.

Protection delivered by the same tools Microsoft uses for business customers. Data encryption in your mailbox and after email is sent. Automatic deactivation of unsafe links that contain phishing scams, viruses, or malware.