Alternatively, you could buy a standalone copy of Microsoft Office Home and Business 2016 (£164) or Microsoft Office Outlook 2016 instead.
The obvious catch is that, after the first year, you’d be paying £59.99 per year for Office 365 Personal, though this does include full copies of Microsoft Office programs plus a 1TB free online storage. (You should have received this offer by email, but if not, the details are online.)
Outlook costs money, but Microsoft is offering Live Mail users a free subscription to Office 365 for one year.
Microsoft suggests using either its free Mail app or Outlook, the email and personal information manager that is part of Microsoft Office. Microsoft is moving all its own email services to a single codebase at Photograph: Mike Segar / Reuters/Reuters Microsoft suggests.
