In 2012, Microsoft killed the Hotmail brand in favor of its new email service ... that classic email address lives on. The good news? You can still create a Hotmail account today.

If you had previously created an AOL account and don't want to create a new email account, it's simple to reactivate it or to request a new password, if you've forgotten it.

If a Hotmail address is important to you, you need to sign out and create a new account. Thus Microsoft does not allow you to add Hotmail, MSN or Live.com accounts as an alias.

Just create a new Outlook.com account and move over your old emails to the new account. This way, you can keep using your familiar Hotmail email address, ...

Like many other webmail clients, Hotmail allows you to forward messages from your account to other email addresses. If you use another email address as your primary one, forwarding your Hotmail ...