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Dear Jared Spataro, 

thanks for this update - but might I argue that you acutally left out the (to me) most exciting news in "O365 home/personal product world":

The apparent return of the "custom domain" feature ("personalized email"): 

To be able to use my own domain to receive email natively within O365 home (= to use the MS Exchange mail server as MX for incoming email without the need to have a seperate provider for mailboxes). That feature was available in "outlook.com premium" in the US until last fall when it was axed.

This is the 2nd highest voted https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/8987830-office-365-home-personal-email-domain-availabili for O365 home and for many users it really is a key differenciator that makes or breaks the deal because it enables us to fully use the collaboration features in O365 with our own domain without workarounds.

So I was very excited when I read news about https://support.office.com/en-us/article/get-a-personalized-email-address-in-office-365-75416a58-b225-4c02-8c07-8979403b427b?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US and found that you actually beta-test this - and that I already have it in the https://outlook.live.com/mail/options/premium/features of my account.

I immediately tried it out - Adding and managing a domain and setting up one (!) mail address seems to work perfectly.

Thanks very much to listen to user input here! A very very welcome addition to the O365 home - product!

And very much to my surprise as I did not see this listed in the O365 roadmap.

But there is (yet) one major limitation: 

The way that it *appears* to be designed (and I'm just judging what I can see in the beta) is so that in your family domain, you can have eactly *one* mail address per account. (= 1 per Office license holder).

It's not possile to have secondary addresses / aliases e.g. to seperate newsletter signups or SPAM or catch-all.

Nor is it possible to create seperate accounts for the kids that don't have Office licenses (or in my case: for the printer).

I would argue that this limitation makes this feature less attractive to a large part of the target audience (if you have your own domain, usually you do a bit more than just 1 address per person).

Please allow the user to set up aliases (just as you can set up an extra secondary@outlook.com https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=864833) or extra mail addresses (account-independent).

That would make an incredible improvement to what is already an incredible improvement of an incredible product :-) 

Also: How about allowing users to share contact lists within their family. Or calendars? 

Thanks for the great work and BR 

Jan