{"id":12953,"date":"2020-02-03T10:17:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T09:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=12953"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T09:20:28","slug":"outlook-com-premium-portal-will-be-shutdown-feb-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/02\/03\/outlook-com-premium-portal-will-be-shutdown-feb-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook.com Premium Portal will be shutdown Feb. 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Office1.jpg\" width=\"55\" height=\"60\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/03\/outlook-com-premium-protal-wird-im-feb-2020-abgeschaltet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]A brief note for users of Outlook.com Premium that Microsoft will shutdown the associated portal End of February 2020. Personalized e-mail addresses will require an Office 365 Home or Premium subscription as of February 28, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I confess I got lost long time ago by the moves Microsoft is executing around Outlook.com. New domains has been introduced, removed and brought back. Personalized e-mail addresses has been introduced, and are now withdrawn. 2017 I found the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-us\/article\/premium-outlook-com-features-for-office-365-subscribers-78c6089c-7faf-44f5-82e2-efa9ebb921d2?ui=en-US&amp;rs=en-US&amp;ad=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">description for Premium Outlook.com features for Office 365 subscribers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Outlook.com Premium will be shut down soon<\/h2>\n<p>Users of an Outlook.com Premium subscription could use a personalized e-mail address that uses a custom domain. Should be ad-free and could be used by administrators. Wasn't trivial to administer, though. Probably kept a lot of people from using it, and then there was <a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-us\/article\/outlook-com-premium-closed-to-new-subscribers-93934667-4db8-40bd-84b3-fc4823026ddd?ui=en-US&amp;rs=en-US&amp;ad=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this announcement<\/a> (in October 2017) that Outlook.com Premium would be closed to new subscribers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you have <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/99R3X7QFhV\">https:\/\/t.co\/99R3X7QFhV<\/a> Premium, you should have gotten this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p3VJk3AdQr\">https:\/\/t.co\/p3VJk3AdQr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/753Ke7W7V0\">pic.twitter.com\/753Ke7W7V0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert (@TheCheekyTaurus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCheekyTaurus\/status\/1222988251046137856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"preservee038ca9910684b33aeb5f2bd8dee8cb9\" class=\"wlWriterPreserve\"><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the end of January 2020 I came across the above tweet from Robert, which is a message from Microsoft. That should have been sent to every subscriber of Outlook.com Premium. The portal for Outlook.com Premium will be shut down by Microsoft on 2\/28-2020.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who uses an Outlook.com Premium account with their own domain and personalized e-mail addresses will need a paid Office 365 Home or Premium subscription. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/heres-how-office-365-users-can-get-a-custom-email-address-without-corporate-headaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article<\/a> on ZDNet, Ed Bott describes how someone can continue to use the features in Office 365 Home or Personal subscriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]A brief note for users of Outlook.com Premium that Microsoft will shutdown the associated portal End of February 2020. Personalized e-mail addresses will require an Office 365 Home or Premium subscription as of February 28, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,11],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-12953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-office","tag-outlook-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}