Custom Windows Live Mail Begins

You live quietly for several years, everything works, and here you receive a message on a holiday that it will no longer be possible to add new domains to domains.live.com , and even later you will not be able to add or delete accounts in the old domains.

You remember the good evil corporation Google, which closes the excellent free services, and here ...


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We read the message:

Dear Outlook.com user!
We inform you that important changes have occurred in the Windows Live Control Center. Since April 10, 2014, Outlook.com has stopped supporting the registration of new personal domains. Thank you for using this service and regret these changes. We will tell you what these changes mean for you, and offer you as our valuable customer an alternative solution.

We run to check in the personal domain panel, and there:



But after all, they offer some kind of solution, read further:

Registered users will be able to log in to Outlook.com with an existing personal domain address, but from July 31, 2014, it will not be possible to add or delete accounts in personal domains.
Alternatively, we recommend that administrators who need to manage e-mail addresses in their personal domains should consider purchasing Office 365 , the best web-based email service from Microsoft. After upgrading to Office 365, you can continue to manage your personal domains, and also get all the benefits of modern enterprise-class mail and tools for collaboration and communication.

Then you understand that come on. Comedy. Pay or use what was on July 31 (many probably will).

Well, the bonus additionally:

We want to offer you an additional 90 days of subscription to the Office 365 Small Business Plan extended to five users, provided that the subscription will be issued before July 15, 2014. The Office 365 Small Business Extended Suite includes the latest version of Office for Windows or Mac computers, as well as the iPad, 50 GB for business class email, OneDrive online storage for business, and more.
After subscribing to Office 365, and even if it is canceled, you can use your personal domain on Outlook.com as usual.


Now the question to the studio, what alternatives to free user mail you can offer. Let's discuss all the options.

Addition: I wrote about Yandex, which, in my personal opinion , does not always suit the attitude towards users and their data (I recall specific examples: you can’t delete an account without a passport, some data get to unauthorized persons).