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No longer access to that account means, often, impossible or very difficult to restore access to other accounts that use your old email address as password-recovery contact info! If you have used an email account for years, it's likely used with all kinds of online accounts, including financial institutions, backup email address for on- and off-line companies, etc.(And let's not even go into the topics of identity theft and expired email accounts!) Otherwise, they'll send you an email, and it will either bounce back because the account is inactive, or reach the new user who signed up for that username.

You want to keep your old email address active, especially if many friends have it as contact information for you.

A regular / account will automatically be deactivated if you don't login for three months (after that, you get a 30-day grace period before the username becomes available for anyone else to sign up). 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. Protecting your email account (and its content!) Tip: to view the original, broken-down benefits of the original version of Hotmail Plus, feel free to swing by our Hotmail Plus page at Free Email Tutorials (separate website). This leads us to the main advantage, in our opinion, in the next section.

Hide the ads from your inbox: while this may sway some users, the new ad format is discrete and well integrated.Inbox storage limits have also become sort of a non-issue, since Hotmail adopted the same approach as Google (Gmail) and Yahoo Mail with what they call " ever-increasing storage" (within limits, you get as much space as you need).(Besides, storing your documents in OneDrive lets you edit them from anywhere, which can't be done email attachments.) Since Microsoft's integration of OneDrive (formerly " SkyDrive"), file attachment sizes are no longer an issue: above a certain size, files are automatically uploaded to the cloud, not embedded into the message as attachment.With increasing competition between webmail providers (AOL Mail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and the others), the original benefits have become somewhat obsolete: