Add Hotmail & Live Email Accounts to Outlook 2010

But Microsoft’s revamped Outlook 2010 is already here.

Here’s how to integrate Hotmail with Outlook.

Outlook 2010 works with a wide variety of email accounts, including POP3, IMAP, and Exchange accounts.

This lets you keep all of your PIM data accessible from everywhere.

confirm Outlook is closed first, and then proceed with the installation as usual.

Add Your Hotmail Account to OutlookNow you’re ready to add your Hotmail account to Outlook.

Click Next to proceed with setup.

Then select Yes and click Next again.

Now, key in your Hotmail account information, and click Next.

Outlook will search for your account parameters and automatically setup your account with the Hotmail connector we previously installed.

If you entered your password incorrectly previously, you may see the following popup.

Re-put in your password and click OK, and Outlook will re-verify your parameters.

Once everything’s finished and setup, you’ll see the following completion screen.

Click Finish to complete the setup and check out your Hotmail in Outlook.

Welcome to your Hotmail account in Outlook 2010.

In fact, Hotmail Sync seems to work faster than IMAP sync for us.

you’re not allowed to install applications on your work PC) then this is a good alternative.

To do this, follow our tutorial on setting up aGmail POP3 account in Outlook.

Although the article concentrates on Gmail, the prefs are essentially the same.

The only thing you’ll want to change is the Incoming and Outgoing mail server.

Just as in the Gmail example, select TLS for the key in of encrypted connection.

This way your messages will still be accessible from your Hotmail account online.

ConclusionEven though Hotmail is generally not as popular as Gmail, it works great with Outlook integration.