As we all known that www.hotmail.com is one of the best web based Email service provided by Microsoft, recently it has been changed to outlook.com. so guys if you are worried to get an hotmail account, here is the complete guide to get your hotmail account easily by following the below steps.
for an existing user you can login hotmail directly with your old credentials , for the new user just follow the below steps.
About Hotmail
Hotmail is the world’s first web based electronic mail service developed & founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in 1996. It has the free storage limit of 2MB at that time. Later it was sold to Microsoft after reaching to 8+ million subscribers. HoTMail has been renamed to MSN Hotmail after it was Acquired by Microsoft. Soon after that, MSN hotmail became the most popular email service and reached to 30 Million Active users by Feb 1999. In 1999, hotmail has faced security issues with the hackers. in 2001 they had faced the same issue and exposed that anyone can login to hotmail accounts by crafting the url. Millions of accounts were attacked at that time.
In the year, 2004 while Yahoo & MSN hotmail are competing in the internet, Google has launched their web Based Email named as GMAIL. Google mail has came up with all the innovative features such as storage space, speed & high Security. This made the Hotmail to upgrade and came up with the new versions with all the advanced features.
Hotmail Service was planned to discontinue after Microsoft launched its new version of webmail “Windows Live Mail”. But, they changed the decision as the users are confused with the Name change. They named it as Windows Live Hotmail after testing with the beta users.
Hotmail.com Features
Before going to create Hotmail account, let me explain you the interesting features of hotmail.
Create www.hotmail.com account | Hotmail Sign up & login
www.Hotmail.com Sign up
Creating a Hotmail account is very easy. To get @hotmail.com on your email address just follow the below process.
#1 Open www.hotmail.com on your web browser. It will redirect you to https://outlook.live.com/owa/. It is the official page of Hotmail website which has been changed to Outlook.com in 2015. Who ever wants to create account on hotmail.com, microsoft.com, outlook, windows live will be redirected to this page.
#2 After that click on “Create Free account” option which is on the center of the page.
#3 Select your desired email address. the username should be unique. If the selected username already exists you need to select another username.
#4 After selecting the desired username which is available to take, select the option @hotmail.com to get Hotmail address in your Hotmail.com Click on next
#5 You are asked to fill the basic details like First name, last name, DOB, Gender Etc
#6 Enter the Recovery mail & Phone Number. This will be helpful when you lost your username or Password. With the help of this you can recover your account.
www.hotmail.com Login / Hotmail Sign in
Hey guys if you are old hotmail users, looking for hotmail login ? just open the home page of outlook .com and enter your hotmail login details. you will be able to login your hotmail outlook.com with your old credentials. if you are new user just follow the process explained below.
#1 Open https://outlook.live.com/owa/ click on sign in option
#2 You are redirected to Microsoft outlook login page & you will be asked your email / username
#3 Enter the user name and click on next. You are asked to enter the password of the Hotmail account.
#4 After successful validation you are logged into your Hotmail account.
You can now send / receive Emails from your friends and family members.
Conclusion
In this article we clearly explained how to sign up hotmail account & Login hotmail account. In case, if you are facing any issues with hotmail sign up or hotmail.com login just contact us through the comment section which is placed after the article.