Changing existing Hotmail email address to a different one

Question

I read that revealing your age in your email address isn't in your favor when you're job hunting. Is it possible to change from one email address to another WITHOUT opening a new account and deleting the old one (i.e. [email protected] to [email protected])? I was researching, but I couldn't find any information about it.

Answer 1

From your current Hotmail account, you can make an alias and set this alias as your 'primary alias':

If you want a new name for your account, you can add an alias, make the new alias primary, then remove the original alias. _Source

a) To add (or remove) the alias:

Go to www.outlook.com, login. Click your username at the top right, click "Account Settings". Click Overview > Add or Change aliases > Add alias (or remove). Make an account email

b) To set the new alias as your primary one:

Go to http://account.live.com. Click account aliases. Click "Make Primary" under your new alias.

c) To remove the original email address, go to step a).

NOTE: THIS WILL REMOVE ALL YOUR EMAILS IN YOUR OLD EMAIL AND NOBODY WILL BE ABLE TO CONTACT YOU UNTIL THEY KNOW YOUR NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!!

Answer 2

Don’t delete. Instead, create a new one and forward your emails to the old one (or vice versa).

Keep both addresses without having to make your current contacts update their address books.

Otherwise, the alias method mentioned makes sense, but I wouldn’t want my emails deleted.