I like when you want to make a Microsoft account, it asks you to enter your exisiting e-mail first (you can enter one ending with @outlook.com or @hotmail.com though, it will create new mail account). It’s like they don’t believe in their own products, lol.
I don’t have the exact timeline at hand, but Microsoft Accounts (originally Microsoft Passport) as a Microsoft service wide SSO were originally cooked up at Microsoft, while Hotmail was a separate service that Microsoft acquired. And this was in the late 1990s. I guess they originally designed the account system to be independent of the whole web portal nonsense that was fashionable at the time.
…anyway, I think it’s good thing that Microsoft let you use whatever email address you want with it and not force you to use Hotmail/Outlook.
I once created a Microsoft account (for a Windows 7 machine I think) and entered a Google address. It didn’t seem to mind. It’s my Microsoft account to this day, not that I have much use for it. Maybe it’s gotten more weird nowadays.
That’s the point. For a long time I assumed that they give you an e-mail address (currently Outlook) by default, like Google does with GMail, but they don’t.
An @outlook.com / @hotmail.com account is already a Microsoft account to begin with. If you enter one of those that already exists, you’re just signing in. There is no “new mail account”.
It makes sense to have the user use their own existing email address so that they have it as recovery option, most people don’t need another email address.
I am not sure that you read my comment properly. Registration form asks for non-Microsoft e-mail address first. You CAN enter Outlook or Hotmail address, which will create one, but it’s not even something that they acknowledge in that form.
And if you still don’t believe me yet, I have literally tried this yesterday, and it works. It did create a new Outlook account when Ientered ...@outlook.com e-mail address.
My father has a Microsoft account, but doesn’t have Outlook/Hotmail account for example, which is a bit strange at least for me, and I had no idea that this is the default.
I think the misunderstanding comes from where you wrote “it would create a new mail account” which is objectively inaccurate, the @outlook.com / @hotmail.com emails already exist as both a “mail” and Microsoft account - there’s literally nothing being “created” in that situation, you’re just signing in to what already exists.
In your father’s case, he probably has a Microsoft Account set up with a third party email address.
If he were to want that to include a mailbox, he could navigate to his Microsoft account’s email settings, create a new “@outlook.com” alias, and set it as the primary alias for the account. He would then have a mailbox usable at Outlook.com or via Microsoft Exchange in a mail client.
It’s possible to do the same thing with Google - you can create your Google account using a third-party email address, you won’t have a mailbox but if you were to visit gmail.com you would be offered the option to create a mailbox with a new @gmail.com address.
I like when you want to make a Microsoft account, it asks you to enter your exisiting e-mail first (you can enter one ending with
@outlook.comor@hotmail.comthough, it will create new mail account). It’s like they don’t believe in their own products, lol.I don’t have the exact timeline at hand, but Microsoft Accounts (originally Microsoft Passport) as a Microsoft service wide SSO were originally cooked up at Microsoft, while Hotmail was a separate service that Microsoft acquired. And this was in the late 1990s. I guess they originally designed the account system to be independent of the whole web portal nonsense that was fashionable at the time.
…anyway, I think it’s good thing that Microsoft let you use whatever email address you want with it and not force you to use Hotmail/Outlook.
I once created a Microsoft account (for a Windows 7 machine I think) and entered a Google address. It didn’t seem to mind. It’s my Microsoft account to this day, not that I have much use for it. Maybe it’s gotten more weird nowadays.
That’s the point. For a long time I assumed that they give you an e-mail address (currently Outlook) by default, like Google does with GMail, but they don’t.
Oh, right Separate departments I suppose
What?
An @outlook.com / @hotmail.com account is already a Microsoft account to begin with. If you enter one of those that already exists, you’re just signing in. There is no “new mail account”.
It makes sense to have the user use their own existing email address so that they have it as recovery option, most people don’t need another email address.
I am not sure that you read my comment properly. Registration form asks for non-Microsoft e-mail address first. You CAN enter Outlook or Hotmail address, which will create one, but it’s not even something that they acknowledge in that form.
And if you still don’t believe me yet, I have literally tried this yesterday, and it works. It did create a new Outlook account when Ientered
...@outlook.come-mail address.My father has a Microsoft account, but doesn’t have Outlook/Hotmail account for example, which is a bit strange at least for me, and I had no idea that this is the default.
I think the misunderstanding comes from where you wrote “it would create a new mail account” which is objectively inaccurate, the @outlook.com / @hotmail.com emails already exist as both a “mail” and Microsoft account - there’s literally nothing being “created” in that situation, you’re just signing in to what already exists.
In your father’s case, he probably has a Microsoft Account set up with a third party email address. If he were to want that to include a mailbox, he could navigate to his Microsoft account’s email settings, create a new “@outlook.com” alias, and set it as the primary alias for the account. He would then have a mailbox usable at Outlook.com or via Microsoft Exchange in a mail client.
It’s possible to do the same thing with Google - you can create your Google account using a third-party email address, you won’t have a mailbox but if you were to visit gmail.com you would be offered the option to create a mailbox with a new @gmail.com address.