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

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I bought a new HP computer, with Vista. Once I got up & running, it offered a number of email servers, including AOL & MSN. I clicked on MSN's butterfly, they offered me an msn.com account. That's all I know.

Please help. How do Get an @MSN.com email address? Why is this such a hard thing to do? My friend purchased Qwest DSL and got both hotmail and Msn email? For me to do it do I need to sign up for the premium packag?

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Please read the article you just commented on. Particularly the "Update".

Leo
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dear leo
i had been with msn so...long.thoughout i got no problem with it even i only log in once every 2-3 mths to check my mails.but since recently i just signed up for a new hotmail i will encounter that hotmail restarted everything like my hotmail got suspended due to not logging in for a month.all the new emails i got from my frens or even important mails couldnt recieve at all as it has been barred.but msn even many mths didnt log in i still continue recieve emails till nw.

Originally Hotmail had nothing to do with MSN/Microsoft as I joined it in its early days.

The reason it got its name is to do with it being HTML/WEb-based, as HoTMaiL, and has very little or nothing to do with sounding like Hot Male as suggest by one poster at the top!

Yes I completely agree, I always longed to have an email address in msn.com and I tried different combinations, searched on the web for last 7 years to get an answer to this. It is not the question of having any prestige associated with it, but only a question which always haunts me when I do not have an answer. well the link mentioned above has actually helped me to create an msn ID.

I was with an ISP email site and hated losing my emails when I moved, and had to establish my acct all over again. So when I searched ofr free sites MSN popped up and seemd to have a lot of addtional features that HOTMAIL did nto . So I sugned up and then got transferred away from internet service for 8 months, now I am back online and cannot find any link on the MSN home page or MSN "MY PAGE" that links me to MSN email, just a link to sign u0p for hot mail. I originally paid the fee just to get bigger storage and to not have my email account dropped after x# of days of non-use. How can they sell me something and then make it so hard to find, and worst of all not list a helpdesk connection?

Does anyone know of the phone # for MSN help if one exists? Or an online chat link for them? I would very much appreciate the help.

Jean -- Please send to [email address removed]@navy.mil since I obviously do nto know hwo to get my MSN emails yet. Thanks.

I've read these comments and I can't believe how weird and pointless this discussions seem within the context of the real world! MY father who's 68 to this day has never been on the internet or even seen windows before and yet he lives a pretty active life. I myself can't see the point of this whole discussion when AOL offers completely free email service where you create you own domain name for your email address!!
( YourName@WhateverYouWant.com ) Also there's no strings attached like hotmail and it also sends you a free text alert to your phone when you get email! I never write on thses things I'm just letting you know because I was searching for something and wow here I am typing at 3am how pointless, I wont be doing this again for a while............

Jeeez ... touchy. People ask because they do not know. There is nothing to be confused about here; some people know much less than others about technical computer and software related issues, and they simply ask 'dumb questions' -- as we all can and should -- on what they'd like to know about. The first question asked how they could get an MSN email so they could be accepted onto sites that do not accept hotmail. They said nothing about not being willing to pay for it. I myself had researched this in the past and could find no way to do it (I have my own fields of expertise, but computers isn't one of them.) As for this AOL free email address thing, this is completely new to me, as I'm sure it would be for many people out there. Try to be a bit more understanding. I'm sure people who post these 'dumb questions' could blow your minds away with information you never heard about before yourselves. Peace, all. :)

I prefer the @msn.com address because I often need to send e-mail from home. Many of the people I e-mail have servers that block hotmail and yahoo email addresses. It creates a delay in the person getting the message. I don't always get the message back noting that the server rejected it and the person doesn't know they received a blocked message. When we figure it all out, they have to call their IT department and ask them to unblock my email address. Total pain.

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