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title: "What are some common uses for Hotmail?"  
description: "What are some common uses for Hotmail?"  
author: "Steilla Mitchel"  
published: 2022-06-03  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97777/what-are-some-common-uses-for-hotmail  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "hotmail"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# What are some common uses for Hotmail?

What are some [common uses](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96178/what-are-the-most-common-uses-of-microsoft-word) for Hotmail?

## Answers

### Answer by user

Microsoft introduced one of the first free email services some years ago called it Hotmail You can just sign up any time with a login and password and use it for free confusingly Microsoft change the name outlook was just to be the name of Microsoft's mail client outlook Klondike solitaire \

### Answer by Sarda Kumari

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## Hotmail- Introduction

Hotmail has not been around for an extended amount of time. Microsoft was aware that Hotmail was quite popular a few years back and did not want to cause inconvenience to their loyal customers by discontinuing the “@hotmail” as an address. Microsoft has currently folded Hotmail into Outlook.

## Typical uses of Hotmail-

Although Hotmail is now gone and currently **Microsoft Outlook** has taken its place, the foremost [common](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23170/10-most-common-accounting-mistakes-of-small-business) uses of Hotmail were as follows:

**1.** Hotmail provided a built-in **audio player** capable of playing MP3 format audio clips or voice mails after it had scanned the files for viruses. \
**2.** It had a feature that could integrate other **Windows** live services. \
**3.** The structure of Hotmail was focused on a simple but effective concept. The reading pane was to allow the users to read a **mail** and scroll through the inbox at the same time. \
**4.** Hotmail had an in-built **spell checker** feature that enabled the users to check on the spelling of the words; in it, the wrongly spelled words were underlined in red, and a right click n the mouse presented the list of **recommendations** of the correct word. \
**5.** It provided the user the ability to select various **themes**. The users were allowed to choose any piece of their choice from a list of multiple Windows to live themes. \
Hotmail was indeed a one-of-a-kind [email service provider](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/228991/a-comprehensive-guide-to-email-server-hosting-in-2019) which provided some great and unique features which were not present in the other email service providers at that time. \


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