Outlook.com data counts against Microsoft cloud storage quotas soon
Microsoft announced two changes regarding Outlook.com and its Microsoft 365 service this week. The first removes the ability of Premium Outlook.com customers to use custom email addresses. The change won't affect existing custom domains that customers have set up, but the ability to use custom domains will be removed on November 30, 2023 for all customers.
The second change may have an even bigger impact, at least for Outlook.com customers. Here, it does not matter if a free account is used or if a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family account is used.
Outlook.com attachment data counts against the available quota of the account. The change may have little impact for Microsoft 365 customers, considering that they have 1 terabyte of storage at their disposal. Free Outlook.com customers, on the other hand, get 5 gigabytes only by default. Grandfathered accounts may have access to more, as Microsoft handed out larger amounts of storage in the past.
Microsoft notes on a support page that Outlook.com attachments will count against a customer's OneDrive data starting February 1, 2023. The change won't impact the Outlook.com mailbox storage amount, according to Microsoft, but it may reduce the available storage on OneDrive.
Customers who reach the cloud storage quota may have the ability to send and receive emails using the email service disrupted, according to Microsoft.
Customers may check the available storage and the total amount of available storage on OneDrive or in Outlook.com:
Outlook.com users may delete email attachments to free up disk space on the service. Attachments may be downloaded to the local system manually before that for backup purposes. Another option that customers have is to use a backup tool to download all mails. Programs like the desktop email client Mozilla Thunderbird or the free MailStore Home may do that almost effortlessly.
Microsoft has a different hope, likely. Customers may also subscribe to a paid Microsoft 365 plan to increase their storage to 1 terabyte.
Closing Words
The upcoming Black Friday week offers a good opportunity to migrate to another email service, not only from using Outlook.com, but also other services such as Yahoo Mail or Gmail. Most alternatives will offer discounts on some of their plans and you may be able to improve security, privacy and storage significantly by switching to one of these providers. Check out the homepages of providers such as Tutanota, FastMail, or Proton Mail. Yes, this means having to pay a low fee every month.
Now You: what is your mail email service, and why?
You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!