# hotmail account
Hotmail is the free Email service provided by MSN and now known as Windows Live Hotmail. By having a Hotmail Account you can not only receive and send E-mails but can make E-mailing efficient and effective.
Hotmail also has advanced options of Personal Spam Bodyguard for security protection, One-Stop Inboxing to bring multiple E-mail Accounts all together and Hotmail for Mobile to get your Hotmail Account anywhere and everywhere accessible.
What you need to know about your Hotmail is how to – Sign up for the first time, Log in, Log out of your Hotmail session and how to be careful while using your Hotmail Account from a public computer.
Hotmail has 5GB of storage space and in case, you have already created a Hotmail Account, your login information such as your user name and password would remain the same and allow you to use other MSN services suchlike Gallery, Spaces, Calendar, OneCare etc.