I had a Vista box, 3 Hotmail accounts using the live mail client.

YOU "upgraded" 2 of those to outlook.com, which changed nothing at all in the live mail client.  the 3rd one was NOT "upgraded".

the vista box died hard.  now I have a win8.1 box.

YOU decided to FORCE me into using my msn as my machine login, in order to help the NSA and your evil marketers poke their noses into my affairs.

the address NOT "upgraded" is perfectly accessible in you mail app, no problem.

the 2 addresses that WERE "upgraded" appear to no longer be accessible by anything in existence.  they cannot be added to my outlook.com page.  they cannot be setup as alternate accounts on m machine, because you only give me one of your FRAUDULENT "error messages" that only tell my I can't log in, no reason WHY at all. just sneering at your betters.

so, this "upgrade" has effectively STOLEN t6hose 2 Hotmail accounts from me.  how do I get them in outlook.com?  how do I get them in any other client?  why can't I log into them as separate accounts?