How to Sign up in Hotmail?

An email address has become a necessity nowadays. it’s very important to have an email address. it’s a virtual address, like your postal address, it helps to get many things done.

A single email address is sufficient for almost everything, we need on the internet.  but to have any mail address we have to sign up and create an account which will be our address in this virtual world. There are plenty of resources available to provide you an email address.

But today we are going to talk about Hotmail. So let’s dive into it and see what’s its specifications, features, and procedure?

(if you are in hurry and already have a decent knowledge about ‘what is an email address? and how to works?’ then jump to the steps which are explained below. But if you don’t know anything about it and you have zero knowledge, then stick with me line by line, I’m sure you’ll enjoy this. It’s going to be really interesting and informative.)

Hotmail:-

Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith was the one who founded Hotmail. On July 4th, 1994 it was launched commercially. After few years it was sold to Microsoft for a $400 million. Very soon it became world’s biggest webmail service. In the year February 1999, it had 30 million active users. With the passage of time and increasing competition from Gmail. It was first replaced by window live Hotmail and then finally by outlook.com. however, it is still can be used to making a new email account.

Why do you need an email account?

• It provides an online platform from where you can receive and send messages to anyone, anytime, and from anywhere.
• It acts as an identity proof for creating other accounts on the internet.
• There are plenty of services that you can enjoy only if you have an email address:-

Skype: everyone knows about Skype. it’s a software which allows you to make video calls and share digital files.

Microsoft’s products: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel and many more. You can excess its services.

One drive: it is a cloud storage service which allows the user to store the data in the cloud and save them with anyone, anytime, and anywhere.

Steps to create an account on Hotmail?

• Step 1: Visit the official website.

(URL https://live.com or https://outlook.com). You will be navigated to a new page where they will ask you to enter your username and password. To create an account you have to simply click on Click One! Button available right below on Hotmail email login.

• Step 2: Now fill up the form. Follow the instruction and fill in your personal information.

• Step 3: provide your full name in two columns – First Name and Last Name. This will be your main identifier on the www.hotmail.com login and whenever you will send a mail, this name will be seen at the top.

• Step 4: Enter a unique username for your account. hotmail is an old and crowded platform. In case you are not able to find a unique username, Hotmail provides some suggestions you may choose one from them.

• Step 5: You have use the www.hotmail.com from the drop-down menu. Then you create a password. Make sure that your password contains letters, numbers, symbols and special characters. Once you have done with it, enter the password again in the second block for confirmation.

• Step 6: Select the origin of your country to set it up.

• Step 7: Enter your age. The positive point is, unlike Gmail, Outlook doesn’t have an age restriction. a person with any age can make a Hotmail Account.

• Step 8: The next thing you’ll need to enter your Gender, where you have to select among male, female and not specified

• Step 9: Then you need to provide an identity proof like a phone number to the Hotmail login. For this, first, select your country code followed by your phone number. This number can be used in future to retrieve your email address and password.

• Step 10: Now you’ll be asked to provide an alternate email address. you can provide an email to your family member or a trusted friend. This alternative mailing address is as important as the phone number.

• Step 11: Then proceed with typing Captcha code which ensures you are a human.

• Step 12: Then tick off the checkbox if you want. It is whether you need Microsoft promotional offers or not. I prefer to uncheck it to avoid unnecessary emails.

• Step 13: Then click on ‘Create Account’ and it’s ready.

• Step 14: After that, you will be redirected to a welcome screen with a message on the screen that you have successfully logged into an account. Then click the arrow located on the right side.

• Step 15: Set zone and language and click the arrow at the right.

• Step 16: Then select a theme on the basis of your choice.

• Step 17: Select the style of your signature. It will automatically appear at the end of any email you compose. There are various options like Business and others.

• Step 18: Bite you’ll see a message saying Let’s Go! will appear on your screen once you are done.

• Step 19: You will be given a tour to your account after that click ‘Got it’ button.

• Step 20: Congratulations! you have completed your goal.

Hope this guide has helped you in creating hotmail account. If you have any doubts, You can let us know in the comments below. Thank you.