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You may trigger mass hysteria unless you pound some sense into their heads. Beware !
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And once you've got that all sorted out, an update will change your email preference from Outlook to that useless Microsoft Mail... And then, if you happen to still be using Office 2010, another update will make it so it does an almost complete reinstall, taking up 2+ minutes to open up something you just wanted to glance at...
MS - doing their best to keep you on your digital toes.. 
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I think hotmail was retired some time ago; it's outlook.com now.
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It is still being offered when registering.
Right now I had:
outlook.de
outlook.com
hotmail.com
If they are discontinued... why the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing ![Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/sunshine.gif) are they still being offered in the combobox?
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What combo box are you referring to?
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The one in outlook site when you go "register a new address"
you have an input field to give your "nickname" before the "@" and a combobox for the part behind the "@"
And there is "hotmail.com" still offered as a possibility for new generated emails
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But I thought that is what you wanted? When I tried it it accepted my suggested name with a hotmail.com domain.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: But I thought that is what you wanted?
My father wants "hotmail".
Richard MacCutchan wrote: When I tried it it accepted my suggested name with a hotmail.com domain.
the suggested name was accepted in all 4 tries I did. In the first sight I saw no problem while registering, but I could not use it at all, when I tried to log in it gave me weird error messages.
I will try again next week, once the desired nicknames are free again after the deletion period.
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I just created sdrahcir57@hotmail.com. SA bit of a faff but it works OK.
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Nice.
Thanks for the confirmation. I will try it again.
M.D.V.
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Richard is right - it's been about 4 years since new hotmail addresses were closed.
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Then why are they still being offered when registering a new address?
Check it.
I had right now:
outlook.de
outlook.com
hotmail.com
in the combobox.
M.D.V.
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I've noticed that what domains you are offered depends on what country you're in and/or what country's outlook.* you go to.
For me here in the UK, Outlook gives me a choice of @outlook.com or @hotmail.com for a new address. Annoyingly one cannot choose @hotmail.co.uk (which used to be an option).
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Microsoft's password reset system would make Rube Goldberg blush. It has got to be the absolutely worst password reset system ever developed.
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Quote: I find this especially ironic given their length blog post explaining why they no longer agree with expiring passwords[^].
Yes it is ironic. But perhaps not surprising if you consider how many times they buried and resurrect COM over the years.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Honestly, can't we have biometrics and end all this password nonsense?
My Chrome says that I have passwords that have been compromised. They give me a list of sites I have logged into. About 1/3 of them are localhost. So, my confidence in that message is low
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Exactly.
And yes, my localhost passwords are critical security vulnerabilities too. I really need a better password other than "password".
Maybe I'll try Password. That's sure to be OK, right?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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P@ssw0rd
Has special chars, numbers and capitals
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Well.
That's a first.
I replied to a "do it for me" question yesterday with a boilerplate "we don't do homework" and generally you hear nothing, or get abuse. What the heck, I can live with that.
But ... I just had a "thank you" from the OP, with a promise to try and do it himself in the future.
I've been here nearly twelve years, and that is the first time that has happened! 
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Do you think the idea will catch on? 
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I'm amazed it happened the once! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I wonder if he will come back and ask better...
That could increase my faith in humanity after all what is happening in the late times.
M.D.V.
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I did that and got an email telling me not to be rude to people so I stopped answering questions
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