What is Hotmail?

Hotmail is an email service offered by Microsoft where users send and receive emails. In this article, we will cover a brief explanation of Hotmail and its benefits. Also, we will cover the steps of creating an account on hotmail.com and the steps to reset the password in the Hotmail account.

What is Hotmail?

Hotmail is also known as Outlook. It is a free online email platform that was developed by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1995. It is a platform that helps the user to send emails and receive emails. It supports various versions such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome. It also provides various features, such as sending emails, managing and scheduling meetings, Excel feature, PPT feature, office online, etc.

History of Hotmail

Hotmail was developed by Microsoft in 1997 and was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It offers free email services. In 2013, Hotmail was rebranded to Outlook. There are 36 different languages available in Hotmail. Hotmail users have an option to upgrade to outlook.com, it also converts the domain names @hotmail.com to @outlook.com. In Hotmail user are connected to the internet to check their emails, and send and receive emails anywhere in the world with internet.

How to Create an Account in Hotmail.com?

• Go to your favorite browser and type hotmail.com.
• After that, click the option “create free account” to sign up for a Hotmail account. When we click this button we will be redirected to this page.

Create a email

• After that, we create the email that we want. For example, we create email such as ar@123, and the outlook says that it has not already been found or has already been used. So, in that case, there is the option present in outlook to choose the available email ID’s.
• Then, after clicking the next button, create a password. After creating an email ID and clicking the next button, we were redirected to this page.

Create a password

• After that, it asks for the basic details such as country, your birthdate,year etc.
• After creating an account successfully, we have to click the sign-in button to signing-in by putting the credentials i.e email ID and password.

Write email by clicking New mail button

• When we send an email message to the person, we click the “New mail” button that was shown in the above image. After clicking a new mail button, we have to add the receiver’s email address and the message that we want to send.

How to Reset Password in Hotmail Account?

Here are the steps that give the overview of how to reset the password in a hotmail or Outlook account-

• If a hotmail account is already created, then we have to click the sign-in button to enter the credentials i.e. email address and password to log in to the account.
• It first asked the email address that we created.
• After that, we fill up the password in the password field, but the password is not remembered, so in that case, we reset the password. The code is generated at the email address or mobile number. If we put email address in verfication, so the code is generated in our email address and if we select mobile number in verification. So, the code is generated at our mobile number.
• After that, we create a new password that was not used previously.
• And then again sign in, a hotmail account to put the email address and updated password.

Difference Between Hotmail and Gmail

Below are some differences between hotmail and gmail.

Hotmail	Gmail
It is offered by microsoft.	It is offered by Google.
The file attachment size is up to 10MB.	The file attachment size up to 20MB.
It sort the messages by sender, size or date.	It search emails by using sender date or more that available in gmail.
As of 2013, hotmail rebranded to outlook.com, now its domain is @outlook.com.	Its domain name is @gmail.com.
In hotmail formerly outlook, the apps provided by microsoft 365.	In Gmail, apps provided by Google workspace.
If you are a business user and subscribed to the Outlook premium services, the price would be starts at $6.99 per month.	In Gmail, the subscription cost starts at $12.50 per month for premium users.
It integrates through OneDrive.	It integrates through Google Drive.

Benefits of Hotmail

• It provides the support of Firebox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.
• There are less ads that runs on the sidebar as compared to other email service windows.
• It provides security measures as part of the business email system.
• It provides online office features where we want to create, edit documents, presentations etc.
• It provides features such as Skype, calendar, office online.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Hotmail offers a free email service for users to check their emails, and send and receive emails anywhere in the world with the internet. Both Outlook and Gmail provide email services to send and receive emails via the Internet. According to their needs, users can use any of them.

Frequently Asked Questions on Hotmail – FAQs

How to login in hotmail account?

If you are the first user, then first create an account in a hotmail. After that, click the sign-in button to enter the credentials i.e. username and password to log in to the hotmail account.

How hotmail is different from gmail?

The difference between Hotmail and Gmail is that Hotmail is developed by Microsoft, and Gmail is developed by Google. In Gmail, we have to send files that are required in size up to 20 MB, and in Hotmail, the required size is up to 10 MB. Hotmail provides office online features that require editing and creating documents in the email environment, while Gmail does not.

How to Secure hotmail account?

• Create a strong password that is a combination of letters, numbers, and special characters.
• Don’t share the credentials to anyone.
• Always check the activity that’s going on in your account. If something is wrong in your account, in that case, reset or change the password is the best way.