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WTF Microsoft?
Posted on 10/24/25 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 10/24/25 at 4:50 pm
Been happening to me for several days now----
And when it does pop up, it WILL NOT let you access your own email until you create one.
BS>
quote:
Why do I have to create an Outlook.com account now when I already have (and have had) a Microsoft Account that I've used with Outlook Online.
Aug 1, 2025, 1:55 PM
Previously I could go to outlook.com, sign in with my Microsoft account (personal M365 subscription), and access the Outlook online web app.
In the past few weeks when I've tried that, I'm met with this message:
You need to create an Outlook.com email address to continue. We'll add it to your account as an alias.
What is up with that? I already have an account that I already use for mail. This has worked for at least the last few years. What has changed? I do not want an Outlook.com account. I already have a Microsoft account. Please explain how to bypass this so that I can use my existing account to check my email via web page.
Thank you.
And when it does pop up, it WILL NOT let you access your own email until you create one.
BS>
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Posted on 10/24/25 at 5:00 pm to TigerGman
quote:
What has changed?
quote:
Microsoft
in other news, before our teams live event started we had to go through a frickING AD launch page today.
mind you, we pay close to 1m/year just for SQL server, throw in all the other enteprise msft crap, the 10,000 pieces (no exaggeration; thats from a recent audit) of hardware all running some flavor of msft server software and IIS, 1,500 laptops running win11 and office and yep, that rubbed me the wrong way.
nobody has the 'premium' copilot either here bc its 'too expensive' so i'm literally using my personal chatGPT or hell, even google search results with better AI capabilities than the shitty copilot built into the outlook.
there's a reason i had to download a freeware app called 'everything' just TO frickING SEARCH FOR FILES ON MY COMPUTER
ok, yes, thats pretty much off my chest now
eta here's the fricking receipts
This post was edited on 10/24/25 at 5:05 pm
Posted on 10/24/25 at 5:01 pm to TigerGman
The lady at the end gave you an answer, so what is it you're looking for here?
quote:
Microsoft is now requiring users create their own aliases on the accounts. You can use either to sign into web services but can leave the current address set as primary. One reason for the change is so users can still sign in if something happens to the other address.
In the past, if you had a non-microsoft owned address for your Microsoft account, they created a placeholder address - in the form of outlook_big-ugly-code@outlook. It confused people (many thought their account was hacked).
If you have a custom domain address hosted by Microsoft, you need an outlook.com address as an alias, even though you won't have the ugly address. An alias was a requirement under the new (but also now defunct) custom domain programs but not on the oldest programs from many years ago.
Posted on 10/24/25 at 7:24 pm to LemmyLives
quote:
so what is it you're looking for here?
I couldn't get to my GadDamn business email when I was stuck on a plane. and needed to.
I'm looking to foster a revolt against these assholes.
Just like they backed off charging for Win 10 security updates...
ETA: And no way I was going to click on those links. For all I knew this could a been some brand new sophisticated Phishing attack.
This post was edited on 10/24/25 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 10/25/25 at 9:46 pm to TigerGman
Forcing Microsoft accounts and internet to use Windows is going to get them another anti-trust suit. I didn't agree with the browser wars suit. Now they need to be kicked in the balls. Everything they keep doing from killing windows 10 faster than other version even though they said 10 would be the last version and now the nonsense with killing local account setup, that all has me on team Break Them Up.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 11:21 pm to TigerGman
You tried using
quote:alias which points back to your existing account?
an Outlook.com
Posted on 10/26/25 at 4:33 pm to awestruck
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You tried using
quote:
an Outlook.com
alias which points back to your existing account?
I don't follow you. Why should I do that? And more importantly, WTF should I have to do anything before Microsoft does me the favor of immediate access to my business Emails that I pay through the nose for?
Posted on 10/26/25 at 7:07 pm to TigerGman
I know I've been talking tough for over 20 years - but I really believe I'm on my last windows install. I'm going to decouple from Office 365 (I no longer need it, it is too expensive/cumbersome for what it does, etc.) and Microsoft altogether (except for work), over the next 3 to 5 years.
I was almost there, before, with a triple boot Ubuntu, XP and Windows 7 (when I wasn't sold on Windows 7 yet), but Windows 7, gosh darn it, was just so good (relative to other choices). They brought me back in the fold again with Windows 10.
All the chicanery around forcing Windows 11, all the telemetry, greed and all that? I'm done.
I was almost there, before, with a triple boot Ubuntu, XP and Windows 7 (when I wasn't sold on Windows 7 yet), but Windows 7, gosh darn it, was just so good (relative to other choices). They brought me back in the fold again with Windows 10.
All the chicanery around forcing Windows 11, all the telemetry, greed and all that? I'm done.
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