No more free mails??????

Today almost evry Tom, Dick and harry uses emails/ web for all his/ her activities - be it keeping mai, chatting, news - its difficult to think what is not available on the www world now..anything you name and there would be some site or the other that would have it!!
Well i guess the internet has made all of us so dependent on it that the business minded dudes are slowly making a move to start charging the users for every service that they use. Yeah!! you heard me right - guys have started thinking about charging. soon the day will come when you will be charged for emails, for chatting for so many hours - and the initiators in this thinking process is currently none other than dudes from Microsoft. These guys never get fed up with every pence they earn that they want to create more n more wealth!!
Well I hope they go down to the deepest hell , if ever they actually start charging the consumers for the services that they provide!!The biggest question in this context would be are the consumers so dependent on the internet that they would go to any extent - read as paying 60 pounds a year (approx 4500 INR) - to get these services?? I read somewhere that even yahoo/ aol are also planning on the same!! They intend to charge extra for services like identifying a mail as junk and filtering it to your junk box or otherwise to your inbox.
Would you actually pay for services like the above? I'd rather go to my junk mail, and move necessary mails to my inbox rather than pay 4500 bucks a year just to avoid this. But then u never know - its the human mind which is much more varied and diverse than anything else i ever know!!! If they get atleast 50% of the junta to pay up for the services, i am sure they would succeed.
Anyway lets see where this leads to!! I wonder, how come there aren't any forwards which say " forward this to 10 ppl to prevent microsoft from charging the customers for its services":P lmao!!!