Hotmail and Compuserve
A lot has changed since this page was originally written! Free Hotmail accounts can no longer be setup to be accessed in Outlook or Outlook Express. AOL and Compuserve have merged and are owned by Time Warner. AOL mail can now be read using Outlook Express!
Since ISPs provide all the information necessary to setup your email program to send and receive email, I have removed the old and obsolete information about setting up email to receive Hotmail and Compuserve mail. (If you are using Gmail, Gmail settings)
If you have a paid version of Hotmail, MSN should provide the setup information to download your mail to Outlook Express or Outlook.
- Windows Live Hotmail Information about Hotmail, background, etc.
- If you decide to get a Windows Live Hotmail account, here is the sign up page!
With Windows Live Hotmail Free, you can access your email account anywhere in the world. You can also get 'Enhanced protection'. This includes virus scanning and cleaning, plus advanced filtering. You cannot download email to your computer with Hotmail Free. You cannot backup your Hotmail email messages and folders. If you don't login with 30 days, you can lose your hotmail account and all the messages you have saved.
Hotmail Plus provides more storage and will also allow you to access your email using Outlook Express or Outlook. Plus, you get all of the features of Hotmail Free and no ads in your MSN space.
Hotmail Premium gives you all of the features of Hotmail Free and Hotmail Premium. It also gives you ad-free emails and a lot of additional tools for other resources.
- Compuserve Information about Compuserve, history, etc.
- Compuserve Email help (Other email help here as well, AOL, MSN, etc.)
- AOL Information about AOL, background, changes, etc