Switching from hotmail to outlook.com alias

[scottcraft]

I have an outlook.com alias I created. What is involved in making the outlook alias my actual email and not an alias? From what I understand I will have to reset my phone and sign in to it using the outlook email. After I do this what happens if someone sends an email to my hotmail address? Does it automatically go to the outlook address? Will I have to change stuff that uses my hotmail address for a login to the outlook address?