Hotmail/Live/Outlook.com (all the same!) goes down. A lot. It has nothing to do with your end's equipment. If one of their servers goes south, it drags. It shows up badly because it keeps EVERYTHING except your message headers and preferences on its servers. That includes your attachments, mail, mail aliases, and address book. You rely on their servers to be hot and spicy, and they ain't always so. If you complain (I have) they'll get back to you after things are fixed and report no problem found.

I personally use firefox you simply go here(link is at bottom in instructions) and hit the download button to download it to your pc,in the dialog box you can just click run from there or if you saved it to your pc go to it and double click to install, during install/setup it will ask you if you want to import your settings and favorites from IE say yes to all that way it will set it up exactly as you have your IE, it will ask if you want to set it as your default you can say no to that, that leaves IE as your main default browser, that can be changed at any time easily. Once it has installed you will open firefox it will open to the firefox website to let you know it has properly installed, it will only do this the first time, after that when you open it you will go to what ever you had as your home page on IE since it transferred that info over. It will not change anything at all on your IE. That is it, you are done, when you want to use it just click on the firefox icon on your desktop, you can use it along side IE with no problems. There are some very good add ons for firefox the one I recommend first is the ad block plus with easylist which will stop all the ads you see when visiting websites. here are the instructions with pictures Install Firefox on Windows

It seems you dont automatically have an @outlook.com email address unless you create an alias it seems. Otherwise it shouldn't have allowed me to make an alias matching my hotmail email username . I think I have a lot of alias names there. If it should disallow adders ... it should be simple enough to make another email account and auto-forward... to the one main account so not to be bothered with checking two accounts. I really hate to use email to anything other than those I know, excpt when I must ... and some I know I definitely have to give an alias because they will have me plagued with invitations to facebook, linkedin, and all the places that they will unknowingly share their address book with. Outlook.com .. looks much the same as hotmail .. minor changes to the original artistic beauty of their pages,, with mostly the same old location and functions of clicks :) .

Citrus don't like to share, pots that is. Seriously though, don't do it. They don't like it, plus citrus aren't drought tolerant, so that'd be a bad match anyway.