Comment by mrweasel
12 hours ago
It's certainly not free to run and maybe it doesn't really make sense for Microsoft to run Outlook.com anymore, except that it's an easy way to motivate people to having a Microsoft account.
Outlook.com certainly has to show up as an expense, one that Microsoft would like to reduce. When you look at what other providers charge for a single email account, it's hard to see Microsoft making money of Outlook.com. There's obviously something to be said for scale, but still, it must cost them something.
> it's an easy way to motivate people to having a Microsoft account.
Can you actually use a non-outlook account for windows? Or are you talking about a different kind of "ms account"?
You can register a (personal, not M365) Microsoft Account without Outlook.com by just supplying a different email address in the signup portion.
Also you can have (or was that had - not sure) a (again personal, not Workspace) Google account without Gmail by using a different email address.
>It's certainly not free to run and maybe it doesn't really make sense for Microsoft to run Outlook.com anymore, except that it's an easy way to motivate people to having a Microsoft account.
it also funnels people into using exchange for work. more like a "marketing expense".