Ask Paul: April 19 (Premium)

Happy Friday! Here’s another round of questions, this time surprisingly diverse, to kick off the weekend.
Outlook.com Premium admin console disappears
RichardFenoglio asks:

I recently noticed that the Outlook Premium website is no longer active, which is posing an issue managing my Outlook Premium subscription. I'm curious if Microsoft is planning to migrate that management somewhere else for those of us who are on the legacy/original Outlook Premium subscriptions with our own domains?

Interesting. I will probably need to ask Microsoft what’s up here, but the Outlook.com Premium support site notes that Microsoft “will continue to support current Outlook.com Premium customers with a custom domain. Just continue to renew your Outlook.com Premium subscription, and your domain renewal will be automatically included in your yearly subscription fee.” So that seems to answer the question, but there’s no information there or in the Outlook.com Premium FAQ about migrating domain management elsewhere.

Also, curious if you have heard any new rumors about the potential Microsoft 365 Consumer subscription?

No, there is no news about a consumer version of Microsoft 365, sorry.
Band on the Run
Eric_Rasmussen asks:

I'm several weeks behind on my Windows Weekly schedule so I've been catching up over the past several days. I'm currently watching "Band On The Run" and was intrigued by the discussion regarding Mary Jo's experience with depth perception and the Hololens. I was talking with my wife about it, wondering how Mary Jo is able to interact with objects in the real world so naturally but not in the hologram world. It occurred to us that in the real world, our sense of touch combines with eyesight to complete the mental model of where things are in 3D space. I wonder if Microsoft could develop a haptic feedback glove that pairs with the Hololens and would allow people to "feel" holograms? I think this would solve Mary Jo's issue of knowing where 3D objects are so that she could interact with them. Perhaps Microsoft already has something like that and I just haven't heard of it yet? I'm curious what your thoughts are, as this is not something I've ever really thought about in the world of AR / VR.

So now I need to think about several-weeks-old Windows Weekly episodes?! :) Fine!

But seriously. I was actually kind of confused by the issue Mary Jo had, and based on her experience this was a surprise to Microsoft as well. So it’s possibly if not likely that this issue won’t impact all that many people.

But your haptic glove thing is interesting to me because I literally asked Microsoft about this. And they confirmed that they are working on some solution that will, in fact, allow people to “feel” Holograms. That said, there’s a lot of mind trickery going on here as it is. And in my case, even though I couldn’t feel the holograms, the combination of the visuals and their reactions to my gestures did go a long ...

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