Microsoft: How to switch from Gmail to Hotmail in 3 easy steps

Microsoft's Dharmesh Mehta posted on the official Windows Live blog that how the Gmail users can quickly switch to Hotmail. Google recently announced it's plan to unify 60 of its services’ data under one privacy policy and share information between those services, and this is one of the main reasons to leave Gmail and start using Hotmail according to Microsoft.

Three easy steps to switch from Gmail to Hotmail

• Create a Hotmail account. If you don’t already have one, you need to create a Hotmail account. The best way to do this is to get a new email address either @hotmail.com or @live.com. Or, if you already have an email address you want to keep using, you can keep using it and sign up here. You don’t have to use our domain.
  
  
• Import your old messages from Gmail. You’ll probably want to keep your old email and contacts so we’ve made it simple to bring them in. TrueSwitch is an easy tool which will import your email and contacts and forward any new email to Hotmail for 90 days. Go to the TrueSwitch site and follow the steps there. When you sign back in to Hotmail, you’ll notice that it’s beginning to import your emails (this could take a few hours if you have a lot of emails to bring over).
  
  
• Connect your Gmail account. This step is optional, but if you want to make sure you receive future messages from Gmail, you can have Hotmail automatically get all new emails that are sent to your old Gmail account. These are the steps to connect your accounts:
  
  a. In your inbox, click Options and then More options.
  
  b. Click Sending/receiving email from other accounts.
  
  c. Click Add an email account.
  
  d. Provide your Gmail account details.
  
  That’s it—you’re ready to go! And you can add other accounts too—from Yahoo, AOL, or other providers.