UPDATE: 07/08/2014
Microsoft Corporation has once again changed their interface for their email service Hotmail. In order for you to obtain access to your Microsoft Hotmail contacts you will want to click on the drop down arrow to the right of “Outlook.com” and to left of “New”. This drop down menu includes “People”. You will want to select “People” and you are now accessing your contacts.
You can add, remove, edit, etcetera. from within “People”.
UPDATE: 06/26/2018
Microsoft Corporation is at it again changing their Hotmail email service interface. If you want to quickly access your Hotmail email contacts, then you will want to click on “Filter” on the right hand side when you log into your inbox. A list of available options will display.
You can then choose “Contacts” and all of your Hotmail email contacts should be displayed. You will need to make certain that you disable any advertisement blockers for the Live.com domain.
When I tried loading my contacts, I received this message:
Cannot perform this action on your mailbox.
You can still access your Microsoft Hotmail email contacts by clicking on the “People” icon under “Upgrade to Premium”. There are two sections you can work with. These are “Contacts” and “Contact lists”.
You can then quickly edit, delete, and manage your Microsoft Hotmail email contacts. You can add a contact(s) to your favorites. A “Filter” drop down list allows you to filter by contacts or contact lists, display by first or last name, and sort by first name or last name or company name.
You can look for and click on “New contact” in order to create a new contact in Microsoft Hotmail email. Clicking on “Manage” gives you these options:
* Restore deleted contacts
* Import contacts
* Export contacts
* Clean up contacts
You can only import and export with comma separated value files. You can restore recently deleted contacts. Also, you can permanently delete them from this option.
I do not know how recent they must have been deleted or what is considered “recent” to Microsoft. If you choose to clean up your contacts, this tool looks for duplicate contacts. This tool will not delete any duplicates but will link them so they appear as just one contact.
The contact lists tool basically functions the same way as Contacts tool does. The difference is that you can create lists of contacts. For example you can create lists of coworkers, family, friends, book club, etcetera.
While Microsoft has listed your contacts under “People” for quite some time now, who knows where your Microsoft Hotmail email contacts will become available in the future. I personally do not rely on Microsoft products. However, quite a few people still do for whatever reason.
Especially, maybe perhaps because you can create and use a Microsoft account to login with Microsoft Windows ten operating system.
Today I will show you how to quickly find and add contacts to your Microsoft Hotmail account. The menu item for contacts maybe confusing or difficult to find, as Microsoft likes to change their Microsoft Hotmail web interface. Once logged into your Microsoft Windows live Hotmail account, you will see “Contact List” under “Related Places” which is at the lower left part of that page towards the very bottom.
You will want to click on “Contact List” and that will take you to your Microsoft Hotmail contact list where you can add, remove, import, export, etcetera. contacts.