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

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I have an msn account and the msn software takes over your computer. It takes forever to load, hogs the screen, etc. etc. But I can check it where ever I go via the hotmail system. And sometimes when I register for websites, etc. they reject my address, even though I pay, because now MSN is also free.

You asked why people want an @msn.com instead of a @hotmail.com account.
My response is that @hotmail has a negative "hottie" sound to it. The @msn is a normal (non-hottie) sounding account.
I have balked at creating an @hotmail account also.
How do you access the @msn e-mail account from a normal internet provider.
I would like to access my e-mail but can only access it through the butterfly icon on my computer at home.
I would like to get into it at work but cannot.

please help!!!

Leo, for me personally, I was looking for a new e-mail address whilst searching for work (so I wouldn't have all the usual junk to sift through whilst checking this), so decided that I a @msn.com address might be slightly more presentable to prospective employers - rather than the (in my opinion) slightly childish @hotmail.com domain. Particularly when the address I have is about 5 years old when I was more likely to use it as a method of contacting friends and joining websites.
Now with the use for contact with work, I feel it more appropriate to use a more formal address.

Thats all, thanks for your help.

I'm about as non-hip as one can get, but I would never send business correspondence with a return address of myaddress@hotmail.com. As someone earlier mentioned, it has a 'hottie' implication - 'hmmm, why is this person's e-mail so 'hot'?

Hotmail is a very poor choice of email names, in my estimation. With all the spam around you'd think it would be obvious that this sort of name is done for, but on it goes. Probably cost a fortune to change it. Hot is used here as slang, and connotes anything from stolen to sleaze..little else does it add. It should go. Imagine if the US Post Office sent mail with such names instead of zip codes or cities named their streets after some of the characters hanging out there...silly. And it does cause some pause about doing business using it. I work for Microsoft and am leaving the company soon. I have to start up some account, and it will not be hotmail-suffixed. The whole subject is embarrassingly stupid on the part of Microsoft to keep that name and count on it to base an expanded service to the world.

People like .msn as it's what it gave out originally. It seems like the user has had the accout for longer. It's the same on Steam for example. When you create an account it gives you an ID. At the moment it's 8digit ID but back in the day it used to be 4,5,6,7 and then 8 as it gained popularity. If you have a low digit you are more of a veteran if you catch my drift? People actually sell low digit steam ID's on ebay for hundreds of pounds. It's crazy.

Hotmail was notorious for sending out spam and is a well known free, use for anything email address (about as useless as yahoo.com, excite.com, aol.com, etc). MSN.com email takes a little more work on the end users part to get, and seems to have less spoofed email coming from their domain (maybe in part because people who want that domain dont click every free rolex email they get)! Thanks for the shortcut, I was looking for a msn.com account for my wife to rid ourselves of road runners lousy webmail application.

I am writing to answer the question, "Why is it so important to have an MSN addy vs. a hotmail addy?" The reason is, there are many sites that require registration that will not accept "free" email accounts. MSN addresses are acceptable, hotmail and yahoo are not, and therefore prevent the user from registration.

"i am a marketing professional with a major home building construction company. In a field dominated by men, hotmail is not the e-mail i want to leave with my mssgs. when u sign up to msn email you get a .com address but when it expires we have to go to hotmail and I for one, do not want to have to re-print business cards, brochures and advertisements, and if I do have to, I can guarantee it wont be to "hotmail".

well my pda will not connect to a hotmail acct w/out a paid service, but my fiance got an msn acct free and pays nothing/month and was able to recieve her email via her blackberry which is identical to mine. that is one reason a person would want an msn.com acct.

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