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How To Create Free Outlook Email Account | Microsoft Email Service
Are you looking for creating a free Outlook.com account? You are in the right place. We will guide you-step-by-step to how to create a free Outlook.com account.
You must have heard of Hotmail email service and there were many people who had Hotmail accounts, which was later discontinued in October, 2011 by Microsoft 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 vulnerabilities. Hotmail email accounts would easily hack and data privacy was at stake.
In order to handle the 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.
Microsoft still gives you the option to create Hotmail account from Outlook.com, but it is better to create Outlook.com account, because it is more compatible with third-party applications.
Though both the 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 “@outlook.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 check characters.
- Click Next.
- Choose your Country.
- Enter your Phone Number.
- Click Send code.
- Click Next.
- Enter the code that you will receive in your phone.
- Click Next.
- You will be redirected to your email account dashboard.
- The dashboard is pretty simple and user-friendly.
- You can edit your Security and Profile from Settings.
- If you logout from your Outlook.com account and want to sign-in again open this URL: https://outlook.live.com/.
- Click Sign In.
- Enter your ID and Password.
