Microsoft offers Outlook service
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
In a departure from its typical sales model, Microsoft is offering an annual subscription to Microsoft Outlook as part of a new service that connects the e-mail program to the company's free Hotmail e-mail service.
The service, dubbed Microsoft Office Outlook Live, debuted last night. It will cost $59.95 a year as a premium offering from the company's MSN Internet division.
With a subscription to the service, users will be able to download the latest version of the e-mail program, Outlook 2003. As long as they remain subscribers, they also will receive new versions of Outlook as they are released, said Karin Muskopf, an MSN product manager.