Outlook

Outlook Sign In Information

Outlook email is a free online mailing service provided by Microsoft through their official website Outlook.com. This service was previously called MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Hotmail and Hotmail, and it was one of the first webmail services in the world, back then it was and it still is one of the most widely used free webmail services on the planet. According to several sources, one of them being Wikipedia itself, state that this service is the world’s second largest free webmail service after Gmail, the service currently has over 360 million users worldwide.

Outlook.com was instantly popular because it inherited all the previous users that Hotmail had, but what has really made Microsoft’s webmail service so popular is an unmatched set of features that allow you to easily and quickly communicate with people all around the world at a very low cost. Some popular features offered by this service include unlimited storage, Ajax built interface, keyboard controls, the ability to search your messages, auto-completion of contact addresses when writing emails, contact grouping, the ability to import and export your contacts as CSV files, rich text formatting, spam filtering, virus scanning and protection, plus a lot more.

Microsoft also integrated this service with Office Web Apps, this step was taken to allow viewing and editing of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents that are attached to email messages sent through Outlook.com. This feature also gives you the ability to automatically send group messages and received emails that are from the same conversation into the same conversation thread, allowing the group to work better, quicker and more efficiently.

To start using this service you will first have to create an account, for those of you who still don’t have one visit this page to sign up now, don’t worry it’s free. After completing the registration process come back to this page to learn how to access your account, if you don’t know how to sign in or if you are having problems follow the steps below.

Outlook Email Login – Step By Step Tutorial

1. Go to the site’s home page which is also the sign in page located at the following url: https://www.outlook.com/owa.

2. Enter your email address, also known as your “Microsoft Account” in the first field of the access form located to the right side of your screen.

3. Enter your login password in the second field.

4. Click “Sign In” and you are done.

You can also sign in with a single-use code option, simply click the blue link beneath the blue sign in button that says “Sign In with a single-use code”,

then on the next page enter your email address, followed by your phone number, and finally click the blue button that says “Text me the code”, then enter the code and you are done.

If you forgot your password go back to Outlook’s login page, click the blue link that says “Can’t Access Your Account?”, enter your email address, then enter the letters, click “Next” and follow instructions to get a new password. It shouldn’t take long before you are able to reset your password, after that you’ll be able to access your account right away.

References:

– Outlook.com Features by Microsoft.com.