Introduction
Do you want a chance to set up a hotmail com email account? Why would anyone want to make a hotmail com email account anyway? Emailing someone is a common method of communicating with friends and family. You can send your pictures, videos, music and documents to your favorite people with your hotmail com email account. What's Hotmail? Hotmail was the previous name for Microsoft's email service. Windows Live Hotmail or Windows Live Mail is the current name for the service. Creating a hotmail com email is free and the use of the service is also free. Hotmail is one of the Web's first email services.
Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia released the email service in July 1996 and named it Hotmail. However, Microsoft bought the rights to the Hotmail name in 1996 for $400 million and it was later called MSN Hotmail. What do you receive with your hotmail com email account? You have unlimited storage space, which means you can send as many emails as you want and anyone can send you mail and you do not lose any storage space. Other features include Windows Live Messenger integrated with your hotmail com email, which means you can use the instant messenger while emailing, a calendar, SkyDrive, which is a social networking platform and other features. Setting up a hotmail com email account is simple, easy and quick.
Step 1
Visit the website for Windows Live Mail at home.live.com. See the area of the website where you see a sentence that says, "Don't have a Windows Live ID?" Once you see that sentence, you need to click on the "Sign Up" link to take you to the hotmail com email account setup page.
Step 2
Fill out the information that is required on the "Create your Windows Live ID" page. Windows Live ID is not only your email address, but it is also your screenname you use for Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger. You need to enter other information on the page. You enter your full name, mobile number (for security purposes), alternate email address (password recovery and account recovery), birthday, gender, country, zip code and of course, you create a password and your Windows Live ID for your hotmail com email.
Step 3
Choose your Windows Live ID wisely because someone may have the email address you want to use. Make sure your email address you have is unique, but make the email address something that is easy to remember. You do not want to keep contacting MSN to retrieve your email address.
Step 4
Click "I Accept" once you complete the "Create your Windows Live ID." You are taken to your hotmail com email homepage. You can go to your inbox by clicking "Go to Inbox" or "Inbox." You can now begin to email people you want.
Step 5
Notify everyone that is close to you about your email address, so they can add you to their contacts on their email address book and on their Windows Live Messenger contact list. Test out your new email address by emailing someone a message by clicking "New."
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