Saturday, June 12, 2010

Goodbye Hotmail?

That is if I can figure out how to delete my account. Windows Live makes it impossibly stupid to delete your account. 

When I attempt to do this with my account it says I'm linked to a points system and a billing account. When I click on the link for the billing account it says that I don't have a billing account. So I don't know what Windows Live is talking about.

As for this points account: It's from when I lived with people who had an xbox last year. I don't play video games very often and I can't figure out how to delete this point accounts from my computer. Wouldn't it just be easier for them to say "when you delete your windows live account you will also be deleting your points account"?

Yes. But instead they say you have to go and delete all the other accounts that your Windows Live account is connected to. Really annoying. I've had this account for almost 10 years, I can't remember everything I've signed up for with it. 

Yet another reason to hate Microsoft! 

2 comments:

  1. Have you considered forwarding your mail and just leaving the account to die?

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  2. I have. I don't really want to kill it - I just wanted it to stop spamming. Which it finally seems to have done. So I guess the problem is sorta solved or can be ignored until the next time it needs to be addressed.

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