How to Create a New Outlook.com Email Account?

Create New Outlook Email Account: 

If you have a free Outlook account, then you will be able to access your contacts, emails, tasks and calendars from anywhere you like. If you wish to open a new email account in Outlook.com, then below are the easy steps that you are required to follow. 

Step 1: First of all, open your internet browser and then select the option of Create a free account. 

Step 2: After that, you are required to enter the username. This is the part of your email address that comes before outlook.com. 

Step 3: Choose the dropdown arrow gven at the top-right side of your username in order to change the domain from outlook.com to hotmail.com. After that, you need to choose Next. 

Step 4: Type your password and then select Next. 

Step 5: Then, you need to enter the first name and last name in the fields appearing before you and then select Next. 

Step 6: Select the region or country and then enter birth date. After that, select Next. 

Step 7: Now, type the characters from the CAPTCHA image and then click on Next. 

Step 8: Outlook will now set up your account and then you will see the welcome screen. 

Step 9: After that, open your Outlook account on your web. After that, set it up in order to get access to email programs on mobile phones and computers. 

Outlook Features

Your Outlook account has all the features that a user expects from the email client. Also, it includes the following things. 

• Swipe gestures to delete and archive messages. 
• An inbox of important emails. 
• Scheduling messages to go back to inbox at a specified time. 
• Pin important messages on top of your inbox. 
• There is an option to pin important messages to the top of your inbox.
• Features of text-formatting to personalize outgoing messages. 
• Moreover, it adds travel itineraries and flight plans from emails to your calendar. It attaches files from Box, OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive. You can also edit all the files in the inbox. 

Outlook Mobile Apps

Download the apps from iOS and Android and use your Outlook account from mobile phone. These include features with the online Outlook account, which include power search, archive messages, swipe to delete, sharing capability, and focused inbox. You can also attach and view files from DropBox, OneDrive, and other services without the need of downloading them on your phone. 

Hotmail.com Vs. Outlook.com

Microsoft purchased Hotmail in the year 1996. This service went through various name changes including Windows Live Hotmail and MSN Hotmail. The final version of Hotmail was released in the year 2013.

At that time, you were given a chance to keep your Hotmail email address that you can use with your Outlook. You can also get a new hotmail email address while going through the sign-up process of Outlook. 

What is Premium Outlook?

Premium Outlook is the paid version of Outlook. Premium Outlook was discontinued in the year 2017. After that, premium features were added to the Outlook desktop app. Any person who subscribes to Microsoft 365 home gets Outlook premium features as a part of the app package.

Outlook benefits for Microsoft 365 are mentioned below. 

• Custom domain
• Offline email composition
• Automatic syncing capabilities
• Ad-free inbox
• Improved scanning of malware
• 1 TB mailbox per user