Windows Live, I'm pissed
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To use the Windows Live Messenger (or to be more precise, MSN with Trillian) I had to sign up an account at Windows Live Hotmail. I had no intention to use this email address, but now I got a notification that I got an email. So I clicked on "Check Hotmail" just to get this notification: To use your old Windows Live Hotmail address, click "Reactivate my account". Because you didn't sign in during the last 60 days, we cleared out the messages in your account. We did hold on to your e-mail address, though, in case you came back. In order to keep your account active, please sign in at least once every 60 days. The inbox is empty. Thanks Microsoft. :mad: I use the account almost daily to log on to MSN, so it is active. This is ridiculous. :mad: I will never ever use Windows Live for anything serious.
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To use the Windows Live Messenger (or to be more precise, MSN with Trillian) I had to sign up an account at Windows Live Hotmail. I had no intention to use this email address, but now I got a notification that I got an email. So I clicked on "Check Hotmail" just to get this notification: To use your old Windows Live Hotmail address, click "Reactivate my account". Because you didn't sign in during the last 60 days, we cleared out the messages in your account. We did hold on to your e-mail address, though, in case you came back. In order to keep your account active, please sign in at least once every 60 days. The inbox is empty. Thanks Microsoft. :mad: I use the account almost daily to log on to MSN, so it is active. This is ridiculous. :mad: I will never ever use Windows Live for anything serious.
You could have used your existing email address[^]. I admit, the page is fairly well hidden (google for Windows passport[^] and it's at the top of the list), but there's absolutely no need to create a new account with a new email address.
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You could have used your existing email address[^]. I admit, the page is fairly well hidden (google for Windows passport[^] and it's at the top of the list), but there's absolutely no need to create a new account with a new email address.
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Thanks, I haven't seen this option when I registered the account. Actually when I sign up on live.com I can only choose between a live and hotmail address. But that's not the point here. Why on earth do they delete all emails. Windows Live has lost all trustworthiness for me.
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To use the Windows Live Messenger (or to be more precise, MSN with Trillian) I had to sign up an account at Windows Live Hotmail. I had no intention to use this email address, but now I got a notification that I got an email. So I clicked on "Check Hotmail" just to get this notification: To use your old Windows Live Hotmail address, click "Reactivate my account". Because you didn't sign in during the last 60 days, we cleared out the messages in your account. We did hold on to your e-mail address, though, in case you came back. In order to keep your account active, please sign in at least once every 60 days. The inbox is empty. Thanks Microsoft. :mad: I use the account almost daily to log on to MSN, so it is active. This is ridiculous. :mad: I will never ever use Windows Live for anything serious.
I am pissed about this "Latest and Greatest" revision too!:mad: I liked the older (previous) version of MS Hotmail and the feature where you could view the header information of the e-mail. Now :mad::mad:, after my Hotmail experience was "automatically upgraded", I have yet to find the secret link/option/spell to allow me to view message headers. I know that there are some things that need to be upgraded in the natural progression of things, but shouldn't the ability to view a e-mail message header be something that is preserved? Stop dumbing down things Microsoft (Vista, Hotmail, Office products, .....) because you're pissing a lot of people off. Oh! and don't get me started on Windows Updates and DirectX 9c.... totally hosed my system, you a-holes! :wtf: John John
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To use the Windows Live Messenger (or to be more precise, MSN with Trillian) I had to sign up an account at Windows Live Hotmail. I had no intention to use this email address, but now I got a notification that I got an email. So I clicked on "Check Hotmail" just to get this notification: To use your old Windows Live Hotmail address, click "Reactivate my account". Because you didn't sign in during the last 60 days, we cleared out the messages in your account. We did hold on to your e-mail address, though, in case you came back. In order to keep your account active, please sign in at least once every 60 days. The inbox is empty. Thanks Microsoft. :mad: I use the account almost daily to log on to MSN, so it is active. This is ridiculous. :mad: I will never ever use Windows Live for anything serious.
I kinda like the new one...I got a spiffy calendar and upgrade to 5 gigs!...don't even get that much space with my ISP email (lousy 10 megs). You want 'full version' for the message preview...it's in there. I didn't know you could use your existing email address to create a Live ID or .Net Passport...ah well. I don't see what the big deal is, checking your hotmail every 2 months *shrug* Update: to get the preview, you have to click on: Want to race through your inbox even faster? Try the full version of Windows Live Hotmail. (It's free, too.) Update2: I find that the new version is an order of magnitude snappier than the old one as well.
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Thanks, I haven't seen this option when I registered the account. Actually when I sign up on live.com I can only choose between a live and hotmail address. But that's not the point here. Why on earth do they delete all emails. Windows Live has lost all trustworthiness for me.
Andre Buenger wrote:
Windows Live has lost all trustworthiness for me.
Heh. It never had any with me to begin with. We have to learn to be less trusting. :) Marc
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To use the Windows Live Messenger (or to be more precise, MSN with Trillian) I had to sign up an account at Windows Live Hotmail. I had no intention to use this email address, but now I got a notification that I got an email. So I clicked on "Check Hotmail" just to get this notification: To use your old Windows Live Hotmail address, click "Reactivate my account". Because you didn't sign in during the last 60 days, we cleared out the messages in your account. We did hold on to your e-mail address, though, in case you came back. In order to keep your account active, please sign in at least once every 60 days. The inbox is empty. Thanks Microsoft. :mad: I use the account almost daily to log on to MSN, so it is active. This is ridiculous. :mad: I will never ever use Windows Live for anything serious.
Although I'd like to tell you to get MSN Premium (which came with my internet service), I'd rather tell you to get Yahoo or Gmail, and Gmail probably wouldn't delete your stuff even if you told them to do it.
ROFLOLMFAO
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Although I'd like to tell you to get MSN Premium (which came with my internet service), I'd rather tell you to get Yahoo or Gmail, and Gmail probably wouldn't delete your stuff even if you told them to do it.
ROFLOLMFAO
Ri Qen-Sin wrote:
Gmail probably wouldn't delete your stuff even if you told them to do it.
Ah... but they did anyway, without anybody having to ask them
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To use the Windows Live Messenger (or to be more precise, MSN with Trillian) I had to sign up an account at Windows Live Hotmail. I had no intention to use this email address, but now I got a notification that I got an email. So I clicked on "Check Hotmail" just to get this notification: To use your old Windows Live Hotmail address, click "Reactivate my account". Because you didn't sign in during the last 60 days, we cleared out the messages in your account. We did hold on to your e-mail address, though, in case you came back. In order to keep your account active, please sign in at least once every 60 days. The inbox is empty. Thanks Microsoft. :mad: I use the account almost daily to log on to MSN, so it is active. This is ridiculous. :mad: I will never ever use Windows Live for anything serious.
agree, windows live is such a big disappointment to me.
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Andre Buenger wrote:
Windows Live has lost all trustworthiness for me.
Heh. It never had any with me to begin with. We have to learn to be less trusting. :) Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
We have to learn to be less trusting.
I don't trust you! :rolleyes:
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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Marc Clifton wrote:
We have to learn to be less trusting.
I don't trust you! :rolleyes:
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
I don't trust you!
Very wise of you! :) Marc
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
I don't trust you!
Very wise of you! :) Marc
I'm not that gullible, so stop feeding me with lies! :-D
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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To use the Windows Live Messenger (or to be more precise, MSN with Trillian) I had to sign up an account at Windows Live Hotmail. I had no intention to use this email address, but now I got a notification that I got an email. So I clicked on "Check Hotmail" just to get this notification: To use your old Windows Live Hotmail address, click "Reactivate my account". Because you didn't sign in during the last 60 days, we cleared out the messages in your account. We did hold on to your e-mail address, though, in case you came back. In order to keep your account active, please sign in at least once every 60 days. The inbox is empty. Thanks Microsoft. :mad: I use the account almost daily to log on to MSN, so it is active. This is ridiculous. :mad: I will never ever use Windows Live for anything serious.
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I kinda like the new one...I got a spiffy calendar and upgrade to 5 gigs!...don't even get that much space with my ISP email (lousy 10 megs). You want 'full version' for the message preview...it's in there. I didn't know you could use your existing email address to create a Live ID or .Net Passport...ah well. I don't see what the big deal is, checking your hotmail every 2 months *shrug* Update: to get the preview, you have to click on: Want to race through your inbox even faster? Try the full version of Windows Live Hotmail. (It's free, too.) Update2: I find that the new version is an order of magnitude snappier than the old one as well.
This "full version" you speak of, what are the side effects? I'm siding on the side of skepticism (based on posts above :laugh: ) and don't know what sort of experiments MS will subject me to if I acquire the "full version". I still am awfully ticked about MS basically killing me with the Updates and now I'm dead in the water regarding my DVD playback on my older (circa 2002) XP machine. :mad: -- just for old times sake
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This "full version" you speak of, what are the side effects? I'm siding on the side of skepticism (based on posts above :laugh: ) and don't know what sort of experiments MS will subject me to if I acquire the "full version". I still am awfully ticked about MS basically killing me with the Updates and now I'm dead in the water regarding my DVD playback on my older (circa 2002) XP machine. :mad: -- just for old times sake
The full version just serves up a bit more stuff like the message previews...mostly they first offer the 'lite' one for people on dialup connections...if you're on cable/dsl you should have no problems with the full version. I stick with the lite version anyway cuz I don't like 'message preview'...I always have the 'preview pane' turned off in my Outlook.