Hotmail to Outlook - Page 2

B4its2L8 · 4 Mar 2013, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by B4its2L8

Ohhhhh, I think MS is perfectly capable of removing things that are working well, too.

And here's further proof.

(Notice esp. the comments on the article as it relates to security.)

mike1977 · 4 Mar 2013, 01:18 PM

I have a crazy idea: Why not let the user decide and check off what alias (if he/she chooses any) can be used to log in in addition to the primary address? I'm sure some people would like to give out something like firstname.lastname@outlook.com, but log in to the account with a really crazy account name that isn't common. I mean, I had a common one that got that message "too many attempts" or "locked" when I accidentally misspelled my password. Then I made it an aliases under a secret one for logging in only and that crap stopped.

I think it's a step back in security. I wish Yahoo and Google would let you make an address and lock it in for logging in only and lock the others out for signing in.

4 Mar 2013, 01:18 PM	#17
mike1977 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Auburn Posts: 153	I have a crazy idea: Why not let the user decide and check off what alias (if he/she chooses any) can be used to log in in addition to the primary address? I'm sure some people would like to give out something like firstname.lastname@outlook.com, but log in to the account with a really crazy account name that isn't common. I mean, I had a common one that got that message "too many attempts" or "locked" when I accidentally misspelled my password. Then I made it an aliases under a secret one for logging in only and that crap stopped. I think it's a step back in security. I wish Yahoo and Google would let you make an address and lock it in for logging in only and lock the others out for signing in.