How To
How To Create Free Hotmail Account & How To Access Hotmail Account
In October, 2011 Microsoft discontinued Hotmail and relaunched Hotmail email service as Outlook.com in 2012. There were many reasons to upgrade Hotmail to Outlook.com. One of the main reason was security. Hotmail email accounts would easily hack and data privacy was at stake.
In order to handle security issues and remain in the competition with other email service providers like Gmail & Yahoo, Microsoft launched Outllook.com and shifted all existing Hotmail email accounts to Outlook.com. Now when you type www.hotmail.com you are redirected to www.outlook.com, so don’t get confused with it.
All those people who have used or heard about Hotmail email service ask questions like, is Hotmail still available? Can we create Hotmail account? The answer is yes.
Though Microsoft has upgraded Hotmail to Outlook.com, but still it gives you the option to create email account with @hotmail.com. Though both accounts with @hotmail.com and @outlook.com are same, but if you want to synchronize your email account with Office 365 or MS exchange, you must create email account with @outlook.com.
- Go to https://outlook.live.com/.
- Click “Create free account”.
- Enter a unique New Email name.
- There are 2 options, @outlook.com and @hotmail.com.
- Choose “@hotmail.com”.
- Click Next.
- Enter a secure Password.
- Click Next.
- Enter your First Name.
- Enter your Last Name.
- Click Next.
- Choose your Country.
- Select your Birthday Month, Day & Year.
- Click Next.
- Enter the Security Characters.
- Click Next.
- You will be redirected to your email account dashboard.
- It is pretty simple and user-friendly. You can edit your security and profile from Settings.
- If you logout and want to access your hotmail again, open https://outlook.live.com/.
- Click Sign In.
- Enter your ID and Password.
