Outlook is a free web-based email service brought to you by Microsoft. It’s almost similar to Gmail, but it combines Hotmail and Windows Live into a single email service. You can create an Outlook email account if you don’t already have one. You’ll get access to a number of features that don’t exist in other email services.
If you don’t know how to create an Outlook email, read on for easy instructions to set up an Outlook account for yourself.
Outlook email settings
Sign up for an Outlook email account by following the steps below:
- First of all, go to the Outlook login screen by visiting this link: https://outlook.live.com/owa/ and click ‘Login’.
- On the next page you will get more options like ‘Login Options’, ‘Login with security key’, you need to click ‘Create one!’.
- You will then be prompted to create a username and choose a domain name between ‘outlook.com’ or ‘hotmail.com’. If you intend to create an Outlook account, select the first one, and if you want to create a Hotmail account, click the second one.
- Once your username is confirmed, the next step is to create a password for your Outlook account and press ‘Next’.
- Then enter your first and last name and press ‘Next’.
- Enter your date of birth and the country you belong to and click ‘Next’.
- You will be shown some characters on the screen that you need to enter to make sure that a real person is creating this account, press ‘Next’ when confirming.
- That’s all! Your Microsoft account is ready, press ‘Continue to page’ to continue.
- This is how your Outlook account inbox will look like, as shown in the image below.
This is how you can sign up for an Outlook account, but before you continue using it, you need to know what useful features it will offer you.
Notable Outlook Features
Every email client has general features for sending or receiving emails, here are the exceptional features you’ll get with your new Outlook email account:
- Schedule messages so you can return to your inbox when you need to.
- Pin important messages to stay at the top of your inbox.
- Personalize your outgoing email with text formatting features.
- Archive and delete your messages with the swipe of a finger.
- Ability to switch between email, people, calendars, tasks, notes, folders, shortcuts, and plug-ins, since you can open multiple Outlook windows.
- Use the clean button to remove duplicate messages from your inbox.
- Add travel itineraries and flight plans from email to your calendar.
- Attach files from Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, and Box.
- Edit Office files right from your Outlook inbox.
Outlook mobile app
You can even access your Outlook email address for Android and iOS by downloading the free Microsoft Outlook app to your mobile device. Then sign in to your account and use all the features of Outlook on your phone. There’s a built-in Outlook app for Windows 10 phones. Access your email, calendar, and contacts from your smartphone or tablet on the go.
What is the difference between Outlook.com and Hotmail.com?
The Hotmail email service was launched in 1996, but was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 when the email client was called MSN Hotmail. In 2005, Hotmail was renamed Windows Live Hotmail. For years it confused many users like when they searched for Hotmail and went to the Windows Live page. Outlook.com was Microsoft’s latest attempt to bring all of its email services under one name. So if you want ‘hotmail.com’ or ‘live.com’ in your browser, you’ll be directed to Outlook.live.com, which is Microsoft’s current email service.
If you still want to have a free Hotmail account, you can go to the link https://outlook.live.com/owa/ and use ‘hotmail.com’ as your domain when signing up. The rest of the steps are the same, and you’ll get the same features you get with a free Outlook email account.
Get Premium Outlook for an advanced experience
Premium Outlook is a paid version of Outlook, however it was discontinued in 2017, but then premium features were added to the Outlook desktop app that was added to Office 365. If you subscribed to Microsoft Office 365 Home or Office 365 Personal software packages, you will get Outlook with premium features as part of the package.
Below are the benefits of using Outlook for Office 365:
- It allows you to work from anywhere.
- Get extra data security and control
- Synchronize all your emails, contacts and meetings
- Say hello to a 50 GB mailbox with Office 365
- Compose email offline
- automatic synchronization
- custom domain
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