I am fed up with Yahoo Mail.  I wanted to simply open an email account at outlook.com

All I see are references to aliases.... huh???   I don't want an alias... I just want a basic email account.   But for the life of me, I see no way to do that.   I guess I need to keep looking for a different alternative to Yahoo Mail.

If it is this difficult to figure out how to set up a simple email account, it must be a nightmare to actually try to use it.