How do I make an msn.com email address instead of hotmail.com?

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Dear Leo, a reason could be that I had a hotmail.co.uk email address as hotmail.com was already taken in my case. It was very boring to type it... I could create the shorter address that I wanted, thanks to your tip! Thank you very much

Since you asked the question, I'll give you my reason: because it is the simpliest email address to provide others and one they can remember. Like mine for instance is my first and last name @msn.com. I just figured how could you forget it... hehe KISS = Keep It Short & Simple :o) :o)

Ive had an MSN email address for like 5 years, I got it back when MSN Explorer was arou8nd, back when MSN chatrooms were free. I never paid for anything, and my emailbox says to this day I am using like 2MB of my 2GB usage! Wow, 2 gigs of email and storage grandfathered to me? Me likey likey.

Now if I could only somehow stop receiving 5 years worth of collective spambot emails.....I must get 50 emails a day, and I am not going to loose the ONLY email with my real name :)

paul

to create an xxx@msn.com you need to download MSN EXPLORER, look for it and you'll find it...
then, just create one xxx@msn.com mail..

Everyone knows that Hotmail.com addresses are mainly FREE so if you are thinking of online promotions using a Hotmail.com address you might be looking for trouble. Some people do not click on things that have a FREE address or some cheap domain. MSN.com addresses are perceived to be professional and paid for and thus better than Hotmail.com addresses. Some email filters get rid of all Hotmail.com and Yahoo.com emails on the fly.

Why MSN vs. Hotmail?
I simply don't care for the phrase "hot". Particularly on internet, it's often associated with sex making it seem unprofessional. Maybe it's a women thing, but I want another option.

thats not true... I have a free account and my email ends in @msn.com... its just the one they gave me. i have never payed for hotmail and i never ha dto click anything for a hotmail or msn.com thing. i made me email about i dunno lets say 4 5 years ago and thats what they gave me... maybe at the time they were at a shortage? lol but i know a few other ppl who dont pay also and have an @msn.com... so i guess its still a mistery :P

The reason people want a something@msn.com account in preference to a hotmail account is that it seems many Outlook users get a pop up saying "this way to the best of the internet" and a log in screen. You need a .msn account to log in. Unless you log in you cannot get your mail.
The link to get an msn account worked perfectly. Unfortunately it does not get rid of the pop up! This problem started shortly after I switched to a POP3 account from a SMTP feed.

Well i read all this debate and the reason what i think for this preference is that people pretend to be considered as sophisticated and thats not all about HOTmail word........its all about looking like a well known and senior customer of Microsoft.By registering an account @msn.com,people think that now their address looks like something extra ordinary.Domain names are attractive and they show what kind a host they reserve for themselves so people think it nice to be a closer part of MSN Global Network.

another reason for an msn account instead of hotmail is the ability to place graphics actually into emails rather than merely attached as a file that must be opened. perhaps there is another way to do this, but if so, we have yet to figure it out... let me know if we're missing something.

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