Solved Irritating panel in Outlook

[ICIT2LOL]

Am trialing Outlook email as WLM has gone south but cannot find a way to get rid of the irritating panel on the right hand side - any ideas really appreciated - see pic

 

[derekimo]

You don't get rid of that, that's in the outlook.com site in your browser, its an advert.

I got the same thing,



Or townsbg's option below.

 

[townsbg]

There is the option to pay for ad-free use of outlook.com if you are willing to pay $20/year or you can use a client.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Thanks Derek and towns I shall have to put up with it and I guessed it would involve money - good old Microsoft

 

[ethel]

outlook side panel

Hello ICIT2OL, I have outlook email also. To pay for the adfree version in Australia is now $37.95. I
paid for it last year, but now I have decided to pretend the ads are not there.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

yep Ethel it had to be down to money eh? Thing is they have us over a barrel so to speak

 

[Barman58]

The internet is financed by adverts, you either accept that free use of a service will require that the provider to use adverts to pay for the costs, or they will find another way to finance the service such as a subscription or Pay per Use.

This is the way of the world It's not something that only one company does. Microsoft is actually one of the better companies in this, just go to one of the many "free" download sites to see what Advertisements used to pay for a site's cost can become

I know that, for me, looking at an advert in return for a Free email address and online storage is something I have no issue with

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yep well will have to grin and bear it I suppose - no such thing as a free lunch now anyway.

I work in health out here and slowly but surely one has to pay for ever more stuff as the time passes.

I still am not over the moon about them taking away a better service (WLM) and replacing it with what I find is an inferior and much slower service.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I've never seen an add using gmail and is what I've pretty much moved too.

 

[Barman58]

Hotmail.com, which is now re branded as outlook.com, actually pre-dates WLM by some considerable time and is and of course is a totally different and unrelated product. You could always run your Hotmail email through WLM, which was actually developed as a basic level desktop client when Hotmail was re-branded "Live Mail"

For whatever reason Microsoft have decided to withdraw support for their old low end desktop client, (probably because the vast majority of users are using the web based front end). there is always the top of the range Outlook desktop client, (nothing to do with Outlook.com), or many other free open source desktop clients such as thunderbird and EMClient that are in a lot of ways far superior to WLM and even Outlook

 

[Barman58]

Hi,
I've never seen an add using gmail and is what I've pretty much moved too.

Gmail get their money in more subtle ways than adverts, they leave the clean interface and they grab information from searches and sell this to advertisers to better target advertising. They do of course sell adverts in their search results but it's the data they gather which is the true earner and the advertisers pay web masters for inserting adverts

In the example shown above Masda would purchase data from Google that placing their Ad in Microsoft's Outlook.Com would be beneficial to them, then they would pay Microsoft to run the Ad itself. So at no point does this cost the user a penny and no fluffy bunnies are harmed in the process

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
All I care about is the interface and is what this question points out
Just because MS it's values our privacy doesn't mean a whole lot to me when the interface is what I notice the most.
Animation adds are disruptive and cause slow loading is the bottom line which is unacceptable for me anyway.

 

[Barman58]

For ads placed in the web page infrastructure simply using a desktop client, (a replacement for WLM, which was a desktop client not an email service), is all you need to do.

If you use a number of email clients these can either all be collected by the desktop client or they can be combined within one of the email clients and then collected by the desktop client, or you can use a web client to view them.

I never see any Outlook.com advertising, I use gMail to collect all my other desperate email accounts content and read it in either thunderbird or the gMail web client

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
This is an image I use as my background in gmail so it's way better than a white yucky outlook.com stuff

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Thanks Nigel because I am now having issues with Thunderbird I have started using Outlook but am a tad confused when you say that hotmail.com is now Outlook.com so do I have to let everyone know the change for *******@hotmail.com to *******@outlook.com?? If so I have a long and very tedious task ahead.

I am resigned to the fact that as you said they have to make money out of their products (MS) (as I do by working on past retirement age - to support my computing hobby) but I am just a little old and set in my ways to keep having these regular changes to something that I enjoyed using and thing is it always seems to be at short notice.

 

[Barman58]

As far as I know there is no user action required to facilitate the change

I did receive an eMail, a year or two ago, from Microsoft, asking if I wished to change my Live.co.uk address to an outlook.com one which I agreed to, but this was an option only.

Microsoft have or are in the process of closing down the Hotmail.com and the Live.com, (and their derivatives, (Live.co.uk Etc) sites but there is not any need to change any of the actual eMail addresses.

Way I understand it with mine, where I did opt to change to Outlook.com, eMails sent to either my Hotmail or live.co.uk accounts( both the same account that had changed around 2011), were just re-directed to my new Outlook.com account.

If I replied this would show as being sent from my outlook account thus informing the sender of the change (they could use either address so it's not a decision that they have to make anyway).

At some time in the future this System may be applied to those accounts like yours where the old address is still used but I have not heard any talk of this so it will probably never happen.

I still see @Hotmail addresses on small company Vans and paperwork so that is a factor that needs to be considered by Microsoft

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yep I have a hotmail.com email address
I made a separate outlook.com with the same first part but closed it

 

[Barman58]

Hi,
Yep I have a hotmail.com email address
I made a separate outlook.com with the same first part but closed it

Hopefully that will not confuse things too much, they are after all the same address,

the part before the @ is the only differentiator between the various Microsoft email accounts

[email protected] is the same account as [email protected] & [email protected], and various other domains too.

Any mail addressed to any of the above aliases will currently find it's way to Outlook.com on the web

Not sure what would happen to a mail to [email protected] if you have an off-line client pointing at hotmail.com or live.com

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yep if the same name is available would indeed make it easy to migrate all to @outlook.com otherwise a redirect isn't all that difficult as we have already seen
They may make creating anything but @outlook.com mandatory for new accounts but as far as auto or forced for older... accounts I doubt that is viable.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Ok well I just didn't want to be chasing my tail letting everyone know my new address and the ads I suppose if one thinks about it now dominate everything from TV radio, taxis buses etce etc ad infinitum/nauseum


Suppose it isn't so bad as the TV service out here on the free to air channels where we have duplicate channels repeating every other day, and they have the gall to say we have more access to more channels than ever and I would reckon at l east 25% of them are those really irritating shopping channels. Which I suppose makes Outlook look pretty damn good eh?