Do I have to take Skype & Messenger? Can I not have my email acct w/o them? I do not want to download them to my computer at all.

I have been notified that I must sign into Messenger Skype by 4/8/13. I do not want these on my email account. I use this acct to communicate with family/friends in the USA Italy. I want just the regular ordinary email -- with no bells whistles. Last year MS made a change to using the Outlook system and I was in **** for 5+ days while MS send me from support person to support person. We thought it was a virus but it was only MS fooling around that screwed my acct terrible. The 4th or 5th support supervisor finally found the issue and solved it. I now have a Hotmail email. I pay a fee each year to have a larger storage capability. That is all I want, along with just Hotmail email service --- no Messenger, No Skype. Help! By the way,. I have another account that is used very little. Just a plain Jane account. It did not get the notice to change to Messenger Skype. I do not pay anything for additional space on that account because I do not need it. What's up with that? And I do not want to use that account for my family/friends emails.