It's no surprise if, by this point, you're wondering which email service is best out of Gmail and Outlook, perhaps you're put off by the confusing nature of it.

E-mail Address: Your main address of the Microsoft Account in full. It can be used with an email address or with any other email address.Įverything else, including Outlook Express, Windows Mail, and Windows Live Mail, are no longer relevant unless you're using an outdated version of Windows. Choose the type of account you want to add. Outlook Mail is Microsoft's desktop email client.It's part of the brand's suite of Microsoft email web apps. Outlook on the web, or OWA, is the Outlook web app that lets you browse your email account.is the current name for Microsoft's email service, formerly known as (the latter was discontinued in 2011, with the former being launched in 2012).If you're still confused, here's a quick summary of what you need to know: Microsoft shot itself in the foot with rebrand after rebrand, and it's almost impossible to keep up, even in retrospect. If you have gotten this far and your head is spinning, you aren't alone. This opens the mail overview page right away where you can add or remove email accounts.Is Hotmail the Modern-Day Outlook? A Summary of Microsoft's Email Products For example, if you use Gmail, go to Settings, select Accounts, and Import, and go to Check mail from other accounts. Enter your Hotmail address and password and link your accounts.

Go to Outlook Settings, click on Sync email and then select Other email accounts. You can alternatively open the following link to create new Hotmail email addresses right away. Here are the steps to follow in case you want to use this method. The address is automatically added to the account and you can start using the account right away. Just enter a new account name and select whether you would like it to be a or account. A click on add an email address allows you to create a new Hotmail or Windows Live account, or to link a third party account to the Hotmail account. This opens a page listing all linked email addresses and aliases. Hotmail may ask you to enter your account password again before the next page is displayed.Ĭlick on the your email addresses link under other options. Click on account details under managing your account. This opens the main account control panel where you can configure the majority of account related settings. Locate the Options link in the top right corner and select the more options link from the context menu. You should now see the inbox and the frontpage of the account. Open the Hotmail main page and sign into your Hotmail account if you are not already signed in. It took some digging through Hotmail's page layout to find the page where new email addresses can be added. Yesterday I started to look into the issue more closely to figure out if there was an option to create a new Hotmail email address from within an existing account.

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