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    help: hotmail forcing me to change my ID

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by beige, Apr 8, 2009.

  1. beige

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    hello guys i need some help with my problem
    yesterday while i was chatting on msn i received an instant message from microsoft stating that i should visit http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/gp/Messenger/en
    so i visited the page witch states that i must change my ID as soon as possible are i will not be able to use their services ? they said the reason is some problem with their servers
    y me i don't know , just some pissing from microsoft
    i am using my email and ID since 1997 and its some important to me that it stays the same i registered with it on about 200 forum and site and if i lose my passwords its sent to that email
    what should i say " THANK U MICROSOFT"?
     
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    message may have been sent in error. Do you use this through/for work?

    This seems mainly directed to companies that are using Microsoft Office Live Communications Server--does your company do that?

    Talk to your IT people--I suspect what they will tell you is to create a NEW account for work related tasks and keep your private one for yourself
     
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    this email is for my personal use and its not related what so ever to my work
    i really don't know what to do
     
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    Are you still using the old .net passport accounts? This "message" looks a lot like the ones that a lot of people got a couple years ago. You'll need to "upgrade" or "change" your .net passport in order to access new features. E.g. the live mail, skydrive, lives sync ...etc. Microsoft is probably discontinuing the old "hotmail" and transferring all of its users to new servers. When you upgrade your account, all of your settings, mails..etc will remain the same.
     
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    Or he could read my link and see the message was sent by accident
     
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    message was not not :( sent by accident 2day they stopped me from accessing msn messenger with my normal account tried another account and worked :(
     
    beige, Apr 9, 2009
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    not sure what to tell you--that link I showed was pretty clear---wait a few hours--maybe the screwup was compounded with a screwup
     
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    i used to like microsoft but i think after the vista release they are getting more n more used to screw ups :(
     
    beige, Apr 9, 2009
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