For this guide, we selected front of the domain, enter the email address you want to use for your Outlook account. If so, logout and go back to the same link again if you want to create a new account.Ī Create account dialog appears with a choice of, (when accessing from Australia), or.

If you already have another account you may already be logged in. Go to and click on the Create free account button. Separate accounts will make it easier down the track if you decide to upgrade the account to an Office 365 subscription or change to an alternative service. However, if your existing account is for personal use then it is better to create a new account so emails for business and personal use are not mixed up. If you already have an account you want to use then you can skip this step and go to the Forward Your Email step. already looks after much of this with lots of free space. Email accounts can use a lot of space and have all sorts of issues to deal with such as SPAM management.

is also a good option if you don’t already have an account. You can use your existing account, including if your email address is based on or or another email address with your account. So what happens when you get your own new shiny domain name and want to start using an email address with it? You can start new but you may lose your email history and existing contacts may still send emails to your existing email address. Even today, using free email accounts such as and is a popular option. Over time, Hotmail transitioned to Windows Live Hotmail running on Microsoft technology, and nearly 20 years after Hotmail started, it changed again to running on the Office 365 technology.īack when Hotmail started, most of us didn’t have our own domain name. In 18 months, Hotmail grew to over 8.5 million subscribers when Microsoft bought it. started in the mid-1990s and changed how email was used, providing freedom from being locked into an email address provided by the ISP you used.

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