Microsoft email inbox. Setting up Outlook. Step-by-step instruction. Hotmail is part of Windows Live web applications

E-mail has proven to be such a successful solution and such a convenient way to maintain contact between people that most active Internet users today can no longer remember the last time they had to write regular letters - if it was ever done at all.

Simplicity and extreme convenience, the ability to send text messages and files of various formats to any inhabitant of the planet through your own email account, as well as sending almost at the speed of light, could not help but please users.

Since the active development of Internet technologies, all kinds of mail services have become widespread, providing functionality for sending and receiving letters via the Internet and this was done using a web interface. However, the capabilities of the web mail interface are far from perfect, and this shortcoming has given rise to a considerable number of more or less successful computer programs for working with e-mail. One of the most popular programs in this segment has become a multifunctional application Microsoft Outlook in Russian.

In order to download Outlook mail for free in Russian, you need to use the installer of one of the following office packages: Office 2013, Office 2016 or the universal web version of Office 365 on a computer with Windows or Mac OS. You, of course, can use older releases, such as 2007 or 2010, but we recommend paying attention to the latest releases due to their advanced functionality and compatibility with most popular email services. In this case, setting up outlook for yandex or mail.ru will not cause any difficulties at all.

This is due to the fact that many users could not correctly configure Yandex mail in Outlook due to not knowing which Yandex incoming mail server to specify and what type of protocol to use for incoming mail (POP3 or IMAP). Because of this, logging into the mail was difficult. This also applied to other well-known email services, such as Google, Yahoo, etc.

Today, from the once little-known Microsoft Outlook application, we have received not just a program for working with mail, but a full-fledged effective mechanism in the person of an excellent information manager, supplied as part of the Microsoft Office office suite.

A common mistake is that users often confuse this client with the Outlook Express application - it is also an email software, but these are still completely different programs with different goals.

An undeniable advantage is its ability to work not with one email account, but with several at once - for each of them the application creates and maintains its own account. Thus, you can set up receiving Outlook mail for yandex, mail.ru, google, rambler, as well as many other services and your own sweat servers.

In addition, the mail client works with news groups, and also allows not one user, but several, to take advantage of all its benefits - each of them has their own identity. But even this would not have made Outlook so popular if not for additional modes that provide a huge array of possibilities.

Contact management

The “Contacts” mode was originally created in order to collect and store information about the correspondents to whom messages are sent and from whom mail is received. However, the regime subsequently developed into an effective option for storing electronically information about any of your contacts, including not only business communications, but also personal interactions. Among other things, the program uses a modern Internet computer environment and is able to provide information about any contact taken from social networks.

Tasks

The “Tasks” mode is a complete list of activities important to the user of the program. Moreover, the event to be performed or participated in may contain the dates of its beginning and completion, or may be indicated without them.

Event Management

The “Calendar” mode will be needed not only to remember what date it is, but also to not forget about the important matters of today down to the minute - meetings, appointments or any other events. If necessary, Outlook can inform any necessary correspondents about a meeting or a meeting using a variety of communication channels, from a local network and e-mail to a fax message.

Documentation

The “Diary” mode records any actions that the Outlook user performed at the computer - working with documents, mail, talking on the phone. In addition to them, the mode allows you to keep notes in the style of a regular classic diary, if necessary.

Taking notes

The Notes mode in Outlook is more like a handy notebook - here you can make any entry as soon as the corresponding idea comes to the user’s mind.
Both the main functionality and additional modes are learned very easily and quickly, so the program is relatively simple to use, and the design of the software controls turned out to be a harmonious and beautiful addition to all its capabilities. Therefore, if you are wondering how to set up Outlook and don’t know where to start, then pay attention to the simple and convenient help system called by the F1 button.

Among these features, the great idea of the developers stands out - organization of operational actions. Behind the name, which is incomprehensible at first, lies the ability to perform a certain standard set of actions by pressing just one button - this is incredibly convenient and saves a lot of time.

Another pleasant quality of the email client is the ability to structure an array of messages: the application will demonstrate the complete sequence of messages, which, if necessary, will help you find in this sequence any desired letter, a response to it, and all messages associated with it. If the message flow is excessively long, it can be divided into an arbitrary number of shorter chains– each of them can be deleted, archived or divided into arbitrary categories.

General short list of Microsoft Outlook features:

interaction with many popular email services, connecting to an account in a few clicks;
allows you to work with a large number of email accounts simultaneously;
cross-platform (Microsoft Outlook can be downloaded for free for Android, iOS, Mac OS, and of course Windows.
If you don’t have access to a PC, you can work with mail using the Internet version of the program - Outlook.com
the ability to restore messages that were long deleted;
detailed and high-quality interface localization (good support for the Russian language);
a convenient mechanism for printing messages received by e-mail;
working with attachments (allows you to send and receive large files hosted on the OneDrive cloud);
Allows you to archive old messages (a whole range of tools is provided for this);
Full work with the planner and built-in calendar (sharing access for other users);
effective and complete work with user contacts (can be imported to the phone);
The Internet version of the Outlook.com application automatically interacts with other services and applications from Microsoft, such as the popular Skype messenger, OneNote, OneDrive cloud, etc.
allows you to store all the user’s contacts in one place for their convenient administration and synchronization with mobile devices;
the ability to download Microsoft Outlook for free in Russian (depending on the type of subscription and license).

Convenient email interface

In order to find all the messages from the interlocutor we need, just open the view and you can see all the correspondence with the contact of interest, as well as any tasks and calendar events that include them.

As a structural element of the office suite, Microsoft Outlook has excellent working synchronization with the Microsoft Word application, and automatic diary creation and tracking of changes in documents are added to the user's capabilities.

The program's considerable capabilities are aimed at ensuring that the user's time is spent as rationally as possible and the efficiency of his actions is maximized, however, a large number of users choose simpler email clients, since Outlook, for all its versatility, is not as easy to use as its counterparts. But if this doesn’t scare you, you can safely download the Russian version of the program.

There will be no more Hotmail, it has been replaced by Outlook.com. Thus, today I want to talk about my personal experience of using mail from Microsoft called Outlook.com, which is included in the package of basic Microsoft web services. They also include a calendar and a cloud-based “People” contact book. Now all these services have been rebranded and received a new interface, except for the calendar for now.

There are quite a lot of email reviews on the Internet. Outlook.com, you can read them and get an idea about this post. I want to dwell on the features and some tricks that other email services do not have.

Registration

In order to use any Microsoft products, such as SkyDrive or Outlook.com mail, you need to create Microsoft Account.

If you don't have it yet, you need to go through the registration process- go to the address live.com, and then as in the video:

Peculiarities

I don’t know whether to consider this a plus or a minus, but behind the new, at first glance, design hides the good old Hotmail. This is noticeable both in the main functionality and in the arrangement of elements on the screen. And this is good. I like the convenient panel display mode, when you can see both a list of incoming messages on one side and an open letter on the other. This is called reading mode, which can be turned on by clicking on the settings cog, top right, and then selecting the reading area. For maximum convenience, you can expand the browser window to full screen.

Another convenient feature is the automatic sorting of letters, depending on their type. I said it in a confusing way, but I’ll explain now. In the leftmost panel there is a “Selections” menu, which allows you to sort letters received from social media. networks, documents, contacts and other sources. You can create your own rules, but the preset ones are also quite convenient:

It also happens that in a stream of letters you need allocate temporarily one or more pieces so as not to forget about them. This can be done using the checkboxes that appear next to each letter. Clicking this item causes the email to appear at the top of your inbox until you uncheck the box. A very convenient feature, I have not seen this anywhere else.

The latest feature of Outlook.com mail is the ability to create virtual mailboxes. Imagine that you are too lazy to deal with different filters and categories for different mailings, where they ask for your e-mail, and then send “useful” tips and secrets to it. For such needs, you can create a special box, for example “ [email protected]", and write it wherever you are asked for your e-mail. Also, sometimes it will be useful to create a separate box for contacts with colleagues, and another one for registration on different sites. This feature is called "Aliases". See how this (+checking boxes) is done in Outlook.com:

I think you will find a use for flags, I found them useful. As you can see, my aliases are no longer added due to exceeding the adding limit. Until now, I didn’t know about this and added these pseudonyms as much as I wanted. But you will be fine. Another little thing is the ability to change the color scheme. There are 12 colors to choose from, you can select by clicking on the gear at the top right.

Outlook Web App (Owa) - mail for Home Credit Bank employees for access via the Internet.

To log in, you must enter the address correctly - start with https (https://mail.homecredit.ru/) and enter your username and password.
Typically, your email login is your domain name, which you enter into your computer. The email password is also a domain password. However, if you have a mailbox, but do not have a computer at your workplace, then the support service should give you a login and password. You should keep your password in a secluded place or in your head.

What is the lite version?

The light version of mail is faster than the standard version. It should be used when you have slow Internet and access from a phone or tablet. The fact is that the browser may work slower on a phone and tablet. The second question is browser settings. If your mail does not open in normal mode, it is quite possible that your security settings on your browser are too strict and not all mail functions for employees work because of this. The solution is to use the lite version.

Cloud service Outlook.com is a free cloud version of Microsoft's email service. Outlook.com provides a personal email account and is tightly integrated with Microsoft cloud services.

This new cloud email service has several differences from its competitors.

Users of Outlook.com receive almost unlimited mailbox size for free, so users of this service do not face a lack of free space, and therefore the possible loss of email messages. Gmail, for example, gives its users 10 GB of disk space on its server for free.

The maximum size of attachments to messages in Outlook.com is up to 100 MB, and when using cloud storage OneDrive (SkyDrive), the size of the moved file will increase to 300 MB (via the web interface). In Gmail, the maximum attachment size for messages is now 25 MB.

This is good news for video and photography enthusiasts who send their files via email. However, you can send any other files as an attachment to the letter.

According to Microsoft, it does not analyze the contents of personal correspondence and attachments in letters in order to use the information received for advertising purposes (a stone in Google's garden).

The interface of the postal service is made in the modern Modern UI (Metro) style, which leaves a pleasant impression. It is fast and convenient to work with.

Now let's move on to the overview of Outlook.com.

Sign up for Outlook.com

To register for the service, you need to go to the company's website login.live.com. If you already have a Microsoft account (Windows Live ID), then you should fill out the appropriate fields and then click on the “Login” button.

This will open the main Outlook.com mail window. Hotmail, SkyDrive, Xbox LIVE, Windows Live users already have an account.

If you do not have a Microsoft account, then to get one you need to click on the “Register” link.

In the next Microsoft Account window, you will need to enter your personal information to create a Microsoft account. It is not necessary to enter real personal data; here you can enter such data that will be convenient for you when using the created electronic mailbox.

You can choose a name for your mailbox on Outlook.com. The account can be linked to a mobile phone number to recover your password or to obtain a temporary password for one-time login to the mail service, for example, from someone else's computer.

After filling out all the data, you need to click on the “I Accept” button.

After this, you are taken to the Outlook.com service page, where you need to click on the “Go to mail” button.

Setting up Outlook.com

This is what the main window of the Outlook.com email service looks like. Microsoft has recently been unifying the appearance and style of its applications and services.

Services, applications and services are now designed in a single modern style; the design uses a tiled interface in the metro style of the Windows 8 operating system.

If your mail data has been transferred to Outlook.com, then you will see your folders and messages, settings and address book will be transferred there automatically.

To create a message, you need to click on the “Create” button located on the top panel, in the upper left corner of the mail service page window. The message will be sent from the mailbox from which you signed in to Outlook.com.

You can customize the entered message text at your own discretion using a text editor and using the commands of the “Options” button.

Outlook.com has a new interesting feature - editing messages in HTML format. Messages can be assigned varying degrees of importance.

When working with a message, you can “Add the sender to your contact list” and perform certain actions with the message.

If you frequently receive newsletters at your email address, Outlook.com recognizes these messages and sends them to your Junk folder. You must decide for yourself what to do with such messages by right-clicking on such a message and selecting a specific action in the context menu.

You can customize the Outlook.com interface color of your choice if you click on the Options (gear) icon and select the desired color from the various colors offered by the service from the pop-up menu.

The Outlook.com email service is integrated with other Microsoft applications. After clicking on the arrow next to the “Outlook” button, a tiled panel appears with tiles for entering other services.

In Outlook.com, you can recover deleted messages even if you previously emptied the Trash.

For more detailed settings of Outlook.com, if you are not satisfied with the default settings of the cloud service, you will need to click on the “Options” icon (gear) => “Other mail options”. On the open page you will need to make the necessary settings for the mail service.

Add contacts to Outlook.com

If you have several mailboxes in different mail services, then you can add these mailboxes to Outlook.com to receive and send messages from other mailboxes using Outlook online.

To do this, you must click on the “Options” button (gear) on the panel. In the pop-up menu, select “Other mail options.”

On the “Settings” page, click on the “Your email accounts” button. On the “Your Email Accounts” page, you need to select one of the following options: “Add an account for sending only” or “Add an account for sending and receiving.”

After setting up a new account, the added account will be available in the right sidebar under the Folders section. You can now send or receive messages using different email accounts through the Outlook.com service.

You can also import mail and settings from Outlook Express, Windows Mail, or Windows Live Mail.

In the future, Microsoft intends to transfer all of its email services to the Outlook.com service, and support for older services will be discontinued. Users can continue to use addresses with the old endings, but now there is an option to choose a “pretty or desired” email address with the ending @outlook.com, while there is such an opportunity.

You can receive a new email address with the ending @outlook.com from your postal service @hotmail.com or @live.ru if in "Options" select "switch to Outlook".

You can continue to use email addresses with endings @hotmail.com, @live.com or @msn.com, and also rename your account to an address ending @outlook.com or add an alias.

Create an alias in Outlook.com

Using the Create Alias feature allows you to create multiple mailboxes with different addresses in one Microsoft account. It is possible to create up to five aliases in one account. Thus, together with the main mailbox, there will be a total of six mailboxes.

You can also create an unlimited number of Microsoft accounts, and create other aliases in them.

To create an alias, you need to click on the “Options” (gear) button in the top panel => “Other mail options” => “Create an alias for Outlook”. After confirming your name and password, you will be logged into your Microsoft account.

On the Microsoft Account page, you need to select an email address. You can choose from email addresses with endings @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @live.ru. Next, click on the “Create an alias” button.

In the “Setting up an alternative name” pop-up window, you will need to activate the radio button opposite one of the items: “To an existing folder: Inbox”, or “Create a folder: with an alias address”.

When you select “Create a folder: with an alias address,” messages will arrive in a separate folder, and when you select “To an existing folder: Inbox,” messages will arrive in the general “Inbox” folder. After selecting a folder, click on the “Finish” button.

After creating a new nickname, you will receive a confirmation email in your mailbox stating that your nickname is ready and you can use it.

Using a pseudonym is convenient for correspondence with different correspondents. In this case, you will not have to use different mailboxes in different mail services. Incoming messages sent to the aliases you create will arrive in your Outlook.com account.

To send a message, you need to click on the “Create” button and next to your account name, click on the arrow and in the pop-up window select the address of the sender of the letter (the letter can be sent on behalf of one of the pseudonyms).

The only negative is that you cannot change the name of the sender of the letter. You can create a Microsoft account using a fictitious name rather than your real name.

How to connect social networks

To communicate with your friends and acquaintances directly through Outlook.com, you will need to add your contacts from these social networks. To do this, click on the arrow next to the Outlook button and then click on the People tile.

On the “People” page you can add your contacts from the presented social networks. To add contacts, you need to click on the image of the social network, and in the pop-up window click on the “Connect” button. After entering and confirming your registration data, your contact list will be imported into the Outlook.com email service.

To create a new contact on the “People” page, you must click on the “Create” button. On the next page, you can enter the details of your new contact manually by filling out the appropriate fields, and then click on the “Save” button.

From the Outlook.com service window you can communicate with your friends and acquaintances on social networks. After clicking on the icon on the right side of the panel in the form of the head of a smiling man, a side panel will open with a list of available contacts from the social network Facebook, or from the MSN network.

In order to start instant messaging, you need to double-click on the name of the interlocutor.

To save the history of received and sent instant messages, you will need to click on the “Settings” icon (gear) on the panel, and then select “Other mail settings” => “Message history” in the context menu. On the “Message Log” page, you should activate the “Save instant messages” option.

OneDrive cloud storage

After clicking on the “OneDrive” tile, the OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) cloud online file storage window will open. This cloud storage provides free storage for files with a total volume of 5 GB.

From the OneDrive service page window, you can download the OneDrive app to install on your computer. You can move files between your computer or other device and cloud storage via the web interface.

From the OneDrive storage window, after clicking on the “Create” button, you can proceed to using the Office Online cloud office application. When using this application, you can create, open, edit and save Microsoft Office documents directly in the browser window: Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, OneNote notes.

You can read more about using cloud file storage OneDrive in the article.

Office Online Cloud Apps

You can open received office documents immediately in the postal service window, having received a message with a document attached to it.

After opening the received letter, you need to click on the “Show contents” link. Next, you need to click on the inscription “View on the Internet” on the thumbnail of the received document.

The document will then open in Office Online. If you want to change the open document, you will need to click on the “Change” button.

The document will be moved to OneDrive online storage, where it will be opened in the cloud-based word processor Word Online.

In the online version of the Word text editor, you can work with an open document from this computer, and then continue further work on this document from another computer or mobile device, if the application for working with the OneDrive service is installed on the mobile device.

To save the received document to your computer, click on the “Download as ZIP archive” link.

Free calls via Skype in Outlook.com

integrated the web version of the program into the Outlook.com email service. After adding a Skype account, users can make free video calls directly from the Outlook.com mail service window, without launching the program itself, but using the web interface of the mail service.

Conclusions of the article

Outlook.com is a Microsoft cloud email service that has interesting, wide-ranging functionality. Outlook cloud mail will be a good choice for the user.

The most common among them is Outlook.

The mentioned manager became so widespread thanks to the components that are part of the Microsoft Office office suite.

It is an effective and easy to use email account manager. Its use significantly improves the convenience of working with emails.

Using Outlook significantly increases the efficiency of working with email correspondence:

All mailboxes are viewable and editable in one program;
Dynamic updating allows you not to miss an important email;
Sorting by priority and other parameters organizes a large volume of incoming messages;
The ability to send messages using the program client makes correspondence more efficient;
Backing up received and sent messages eliminates the consequences of force majeure.

And this is only a small part of the useful features of the program. If you need to effectively manage large volumes of email, then installation is inevitable.

Operating system compatibility

Since 1997, many versions of the program have been released. The following table will help you correctly determine the compatibility of the program version and operating system:

Mail client version	Windows version
Mail client version	95	98	Me	Xp	Vista	7	8
	+	+	+	-	-	-	-
	+	+	+	+	-	-	-
Outlook 2000 (9)	-	+	+	+	+	-	-
Outlook 2002 (10, XP)	-	-	+	+	+	+	-
Office Outlook 2003	-	-	+	+	+	+	-
Office Outlook 2007	-	-	-	+	+	+	+
Office Outlook 2010	-	-	-	-	+	+	+
Office Outlook 2013	-	-	-	-	-	+	+

There are also several versions of the program for Mac OS. Versions from 2000 to 2010 in MS Office: mac is replaced by the Entourage program. Outlook was returned to the eleventh version of Office for Mac OS.

Setting up the Outlook Express email client

Advice: If the program is already installed and you need to add another mailbox, then the steps are as follows: go to the “File” menu, in the upper left corner of the screen, select “Information” in the drop-down menu, then click on “Add account”.

Simply filling out this form is not enough for the service to work properly.

Therefore, you need to check the checkbox next to “Manually configure server settings or additional server types,” as shown in the illustration above.

The next window offers three options for connecting a new service:

You can correctly connect existing e-mail addresses only using the first “Internet E-mail”.

It is selected by default, so all that remains is to click on the “Next” button.

In the form that opens after this, the main part of attaching the first or additional