Websites that offers free service use display advertisement as main revenue source. This revenue is used for different kind of investments in website. Microsoft also use same kind of display advertising to monetize its web services.
For its email services, Microsoft claims that it never scans emails to offer better contextual advertising. Still it uses ads to monetize its emails service outlook.com. Now, It also offers advertising free email service for a small cost. Users can enjoy ad-free service in outlook.com and Hotmail for $19.99 per year.
If you want cleaner interface and ad-free service for outlook.com and Hotmail, you can subscribe to premium packages and use these email services without ads. After subscribing, you will get these things:
- No graphical ads in Outlook or Hotmail
- No account expiration
Outlook or Hotmail accounts expire after 270 days of inactivity. Very few people know this fact. After subscribing this package, this limit will be removed and no ads will be there in your Hotmail and outlook account.
Now, it is an important question whether users will like to pay or continue with free service.
Will you ever think of paying $19.99 for getting ad-free service? Is it worth to pay this amount? share your view with us.
