Talk:Microsoft account

message: Since we know for a certainty that this mechanism will continue to change, the start of this site should indicate the date of the most recent (periodic) update or review, and a synopsis of the current state of affairs for new users.  IE: 
: 2013 Nov: "Microsoft account" uses Open ID service to collect limited personal information about you & allow you to more easily browse to your accounts at sites that are setup to allow such re-directed "sign-in" without typing in your UID & Pw.  You will still have to maintain an alternative mechanism or procedure for the many account sites which use an alternative service, or none at all.
--Wikidity (talk) 05:30, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Site Synopsis Maintenance 

message: I believe that this is false, because Microsoft Wallet was a facility for storing financial data, and I think this article is in need of clea up.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.3.50.196 (talk) 16:29, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation 1 False?=

message: This page doesn't say anything about the somename@live.com email addresses. I don't know enough but i think you can't get @live.com email addresses anymore. Does anybody know and can you write a little section about them?
:I believe they only come in either @hotmail.com or @live.cn email addresses... but now it seems to have been changed to either @hotmail.ca, @hotmail.com, or @live.ca (I checked the registration page)--ZigZagZoug (talk) 02:43, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: @Live.com Addresses?

message: Why is this page in the Windows stubs category? The Microsoft Passport Network isn't part of Windows, and can be used from any web browser.
: Windows XP (still supported as of 2013 Nov.) directs users to '.NET Passport' for this function with their typically laconic and snobbish disdain for problems & details.  If such users wrestle their way to this topic, they should receive a clear & candid description, or a simple link to one.<BR>--Wikidity (talk) 05:43, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong stub category?

message: Why are there links to Liberty Alliance and OASIS? They don't seem relevant. Lambyuk 00:40, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  'See also' links? 

message: The name of the network is still Passport Network, only the login service has changed name to Windows Live ID, as of http://passport.net - "The Passport Network works with Windows Live ID." 1() 04:56, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, Passport Network is a network and Live ID is a user account used to sign on to the Passport Network. Two very different things. There is no such thing called "Windows Live ID Network" yet. COstop 22:14, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Anyone get the feeling that all these artcles about Microsoft products lack reviews and criticism?  Why hasn't anyone metioned why Ebay and Paypal stoped using Microsoft Passport?--Bushido Hacks 23:53, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Complaining about what other editors haven't done doesn't help the project.  More often than not, such information is missing only because nobody's bothered to write it yet. So please, by all means, be bold and add in information you feel is important and relevant to the subject!  Any help you can offer in improving the article would be most welcome.  Just remember that information like what you're proposing needs cited sources. Warrens 00:00, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whitewashing? 

message: Since the emails to be used with passport is only MS controled email operations, The problem with reused email addresses can be easily addressed by a notification of the reuse of email addresses from the MS controlled email operation to MS passport service. Whether they currently do that I don't know, but I guess they do since the issue is so well known. 
When you mention a seucirty issue, you need to say whether the security issues are already fixed or not.
:Passport can be used with non ms controlled email addresses too............. Plugwash (talk) 02:27, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment about Security Issues 

message: The FTC Consent Order should be documented in this article somewhere.  I'm avoiding doing that because of a WP:COI. --mariusstrom 04:47, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, more than sixteen years later, I have done this. Hopefully the wording is sufficiently encyclopedic. Beanut H Butter (talk) 23:52, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  FTC Consent Order 

message: Anyone know much about this ... it would be useful if there was something on the main page.
I would like to do it but not very keen to use my two accounts as a guinea-pig!
* Is there any unexpected problems like 'merging' of the two accounts that can not be separated again ...?
* Problems of getting an email into one account a replying with the other by accident etc ... i.e. I use one account for work/jobs and the other socially. 
* I'd like to be able to check MSN groups, email etc with a single login but be able to reply to messages from each account separately. 
Any help wiki-help out there? -- 82.9.25.98 (talk) 00:27, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, "linking" just means that you only need to type in your username/password once and you can switch between all your accounts through the menu on the top-right hand corner of Windows Live services without having to type it again. So the accounts are not "merged" and hence is able to be "unlinked". Hotmail allows you specify which email address you wish to use to send an email from when composing an email, you just have to make sure you selected the correct address you wish to be sending your email from. Hope this answers your question. --Pikablu0530 (talk) 03:36, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linking Windows-ID's  

message: FleetCommand suggested to merge a miserable stub into , please do. –89.204.152.53 (talk) 09:17, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, yeah. I guess I am going to do it; per Wikipedia:Silence and consensus, I assume no one objects. Fleet Command (talk) 22:36, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Windows Live Account]] 

message: As some know, it is now Microsoft account (not Microsoft Account). can we change the article name please- I don't want it to confuse users with Windows 8 calling it Microsoft account. See http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-consumer-preview-whats-consumer-preview-142394   (BenBen1234 (talk) 12:48, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  New name- Microsoft account 

message: Is it true that only Microsoft properties use this service?  If so, I think this should be mentioned in the article, as it's a significant change from the project's original goal.--NapoliRoma (talk) 22:26, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is now a Microsoft-only credential? 

message: I'm suggesting that Profile (Microsoft service) be merged into this article, as it is not particularly notable on its own, and can be covered within a section here. Profile is really just the profile management part of a user's Microsoft account, and is a fairly limited website. Cloudbound (talk) 22:58, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: As it's been 10 days now without any objections, I have completed the merger. The content from Profile is now summarised as a sub-section in the Overview section. Cloudbound (talk) 19:56, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Profile merger 

message: With all due respect, "The Microsoft account" means, "Microsoft, which is an account". (Compare with "The Windows operating system" = "Windows, which is an operating system" or "The Xbox gaming console" = "Xbox, which is a gaming console".) "Microsoft Account" is title of something here; it needs no "the".
Fleet Command (talk) 17:52, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I might have misunderstood the grammar, as I thought "the account", but it turns out this might be something where we don't need "the" (in this context). Was a bit confused.  TheCoffeeAddict talk|contribs 06:51, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The" before "Microsoft" 

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message: Can the lede or 'Overview' section make it clear whether and when use of a Microsoft account is essential for the core functionality of any program or app?  As I understand it, it mostly adds the memory of settings etc, and of course reaps lots of useful data for Microsoft.  Or is it integral to using any of these services?   Thanks to anyone who can clarify this in the article, near the top. Onanoff (talk) 16:18, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  optional or required? 

message: There were quite a few companies that offered Microsoft Passport back in the day.
https://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia+microsoft+passport&oq=wikipedia+microsoft+passport&aqs=chrome..69i57j0j69i64l2.4743j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.203.8.168 (talk) 05:38, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Companies