[header] How to ask a new question on microsoft answers [title] Visit the microsoft community website. [substeps] If you have a hotmail account already, you already have a microsoft account, and thereby you can use the microsoft answers service. You can use this to sign into the microsoft answers service. 
If not, consider signing up for an account. You don't even need to sign up for a hotmail account, you can use your regular email address in place of a new hotmail account, if you wish.