Merging two Microsoft accounts before I can switch to Outlook.com

16. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,
I am thinking of leaving GMail and Google Apps for Domains and moving all my email accounts into Outlook.com, as I have been impressed with the service and the speed with which features are added (like IMAP).

That said, I have an old Hotmail account with several outlook.com aliases and a new Outlook.com account with several aliases. I can not give any of these up and I need them all to be merged into one account. Google has a feature like this but I cannot find it on MSFT and it seems like it does not exist. Is there a way an admin can merge them?

I created a new Outlook.com account accidentally because during the goldrush for Outlook.com names Microsoft was not clear that we would not need to make a new account, so I (like many others) now sit here with two separate accounts.

Please help!

Unable to upgrade hotmail to outlook

16. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,

Hi,

 

I had created a hotmail account before microsoft announced outlook.com. The id is: *** Email address is removed for privacy ***. When microsoft announced outlook, i decided to try it first by creating a outlook.com user id with the above name - *** Email address is removed for privacy *** (i did not upgrade from hotmail to outlook , rather created a new outlook.com id with the same username). It was a quick decision and i did not spend much time thinking about potential problems in future.

 

After i tried outlook.com with the new id, i wondered about my hotmail id with the same name and tried to upgrade it to outlook.com. Hotmail showed a message that the username already existed and so i can't upgrade. So, i closed the outlook.com account and as per microsoft policy, the id would be available after 1 year. So, i figured i could upgrade my hotmail account after 1 year. Now when i tried to upgrade, i find the upgrade to outlook.com option has disappeared from mail settings. I understand microsoft removed it as all hotmail accounts were automatically upgraded to outlook account. But my email id is still showing *** Email address is removed for privacy ***. So, could somebody help me in upgrading my hotmail account to outlook.com? I also have another idea in mind if the first option does not happen, should i just close the hotmail account and open a new account with the same username in outlook.com? I don't have any important mails in my inbox.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Kind regards,
Vikram

Designating an email as “Junk” disables the Inbox.

16. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: livemail · Tags: , ,

Yet another example of how Microsoft is going backwards in functionality and stability.  Rather than improving a system that worked in spite of a few flaws, they decided to completely redesign everything to make the GUI horrible to look at, the workflow more convoluted than before, and add several new stability issues to the original flaws, which BTW still exist.

 

Having said that, is there any way to recover Hotmail (Outlook, whatever) after designating an email as Junk?  Whenever I click the "Junk" button, the email is moved into the Junk folder, as it should, and the screen returns to the Inbox list, which is fine.  But from that point on in the session, clicking on an email does NOT open the email.  It marks it as "Read", but does not actually show it.  This is obviously due to a linkage error in the code, which is part of the complaint in the first paragraph.  So many "features" were added by unskilled programmers who do not follow up on how their feature case effects the rest of the system. 

 

Apparently the only way to resolve this issue is to close Internet Explorer and log back in.  It's bad enough that I now hove to log off and log back in for each of my email addresses (again going back to the notion of Microsoft software going backwards in functionality and stability), but I also have to shutdown Internet Explorer and restart, then log back in every time I designate an email as "Junk".  And with all of the junk that Hotmail allows slip through, that's a lot of wasted effort.  But I guess Microsoft knows a lot about that subject.

 

The irony is, as someone here at work showed me, this issue doesn't occur in Chrome.   Hmm.  So this is an Internet Explorer issue?  Well maybe I should be blaming the company that makes Internet Explo-    oooooh, that's right.  It's the same company.  Interesting how Microsoft can't even make stable software that works with OTHER software which they make themselves!  Looks like Google at least knows how to make stable software.   Perhaps I should just make a gmail account.

 

Holosim

Designating an email as “Junk” disables the Inbox.

16. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,

Yet another example of how Microsoft is going backwards in functionality and stability.  Rather than improving a system that worked in spite of a few flaws, they decided to completely redesign everything to make the GUI horrible to look at, the workflow more convoluted than before, and add several new stability issues to the original flaws, which BTW still exist.

 

Having said that, is there any way to recover Hotmail (Outlook, whatever) after designating an email as Junk?  Whenever I click the "Junk" button, the email is moved into the Junk folder, as it should, and the screen returns to the Inbox list, which is fine.  But from that point on in the session, clicking on an email does NOT open the email.  It marks it as "Read", but does not actually show it.  This is obviously due to a linkage error in the code, which is part of the complaint in the first paragraph.  So many "features" were added by unskilled programmers who do not follow up on how their feature case effects the rest of the system. 

 

Apparently the only way to resolve this issue is to close Internet Explorer and log back in.  It's bad enough that I now hove to log off and log back in for each of my email addresses (again going back to the notion of Microsoft software going backwards in functionality and stability), but I also have to shutdown Internet Explorer and restart, then log back in every time I designate an email as "Junk".  And with all of the junk that Hotmail allows slip through, that's a lot of wasted effort.  But I guess Microsoft knows a lot about that subject.

 

The irony is, as someone here at work showed me, this issue doesn't occur in Chrome.   Hmm.  So this is an Internet Explorer issue?  Well maybe I should be blaming the company that makes Internet Explo-    oooooh, that's right.  It's the same company.  Interesting how Microsoft can't even make stable software that works with OTHER software which they make themselves!  Looks like Google at least knows how to make stable software.   Perhaps I should just make a gmail account.

 

Holosim

How do I cancel my Hotmail account?

15. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags:
Whenever I try deleting my email account, it says that first I need to cancel any paid services with Microsoft and then deactivate my hotmail account.  I have never had any paid services with Microsoft through this hotmail account.  When I follow the link provided to the billing section there is a list of products to choose from.  I do not know which product to choose since I have never had any paid services.  Therefore, I am unable to continue.  Please help.

Request from Microsoft to update personal information – SCAM??

15. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,
I have received an email from (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***) asking for my email password and other information. It is addressed to: *** Email address is removed for privacy ***. And not to my email address. I believe this to be a scam. Am I correct??

exchange

15. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,
I am on Microsoft hot mail with Microsoft exchange server. On occasions I attempt to place a e mail on a windows Microsoft outlook and I get a message that says exchange unavailable-outlook must be on line to complete.  I don't understand what to do?
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