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Well, all the contacts i have on my @live i have on @hotmail, so switching wont be a problem. But i think that deleting these accounts will harm MS's reputation. I think that they will keep them IMO, and just have a @windowslive or something instead.

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Originally posted by Nathan
Don't forget we had a right (in a way) If it is there to be done. Why can't we?

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You actually never had any rights at all... every basic EULA (End User License Agreement) prohibits unintended use of the service. I must say I haven't read the EULA for hotmail/msn mail, but I'm pretty sure there is a clause like that in it, which means the can do whatever they like... because you DID agree to that EULA and you DID use the service the way it wasn't intended to be used by using the javascript hack.

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Originally posted by skillz
Well, all the contacts i have on my @live i have on @hotmail, so switching wont be a problem. But i think that deleting these accounts will harm MS's reputation. I think that they will keep them IMO, and just have a @windowslive or something instead.

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To be honest: do you think a 12 year old kid's opinion under a nickname will make any difference to microsoft?

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Originally posted by Liveside.net

Hi all-

We just wanted to update LiveSide's readers – We will NOT be revoking @live.com email addresses recently obtained by many of you. We love all the enthusiasm for Windows Live, and certainly don’t want to stamp down on it in any way. We will however keep an eye out to make sure that accounts are not abused (for instance, if obtained by obvious spammers).

I'll watch this comment thread in case you have any questions!

Kevin Briody

Windows Live Team

Kevin Briody
Community Marketing | Windows Live & MSN

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Good to hear

* Sunshine awaits the complaints towards Microsoft when hotmail accounts will be ported over to live.com ones and people can't keep their old account names (unless ofcourse they get those afterall..shame for the ones who gained it illegally)....

Once again i am amazed at how easily Microsoft is influencable and is even rewarding misbehaviour this way...

Nice signal they gave out here: "go abuse the system, we won't do shit about it"

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Originally posted by Sunshine
* Sunshine awaits the complaints towards Microsoft when hotmail accounts will be ported over to live.com ones and people can't keep their old account names (unless ofcourse they get those afterall..shame for the ones who gained it illegally)....

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Accounts most probably will not be ported over like that. Joining the Live service will give you the option if the account is available using your existing name, yes.

But for a lot of accounts the expectation seems to be (from the Australian team at least) that most people will end up creating new accounts.

Another thing is that existing accounts will still use the @hotmail.com address but just have access to the live service.

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Originally posted by Sunshine
Nice signal they gave out here: "go abuse the system, we won't do shit about it"

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That is not the signal they're sending out at all!!

Microsoft can't just go and delete these email addresses that people have started using (for email, IM etc) because then it becomes more of an ethical dilemma to them and that is when problems begin.

They've taken the only approach that a corporation like them can - they've disabled any further registrations.

They stated that any abuse such as spam will not be tolerated.

As for some of us, we've had live.com.au (or other domains) legitimately since the opening of the services. (I speak for myself here who's had a live.com.au address for quite a while now)

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Originally posted by mess.be

Maybe thanks to all emotional, sometimes threatening comments on Mail Support's news on Tuesday, Kevin Briody from the Windows Live team decided to step in and leave a comment over at LiveSide, assuring everyone that "(Microsoft) will NOT be revoking @live.com email addresses recently obtained by many of you. We love all the enthusiasm for Windows Live, and certainly don’t want to stamp down on it in any way. We will however keep an eye out to make sure that accounts are not abused (for instance, if obtained by obvious spammers)."

A happy ending for all of us then, including Microsoft's own employees! May I mention that we received a thank you note from one of them, informing us that he/she wouldn't have a @live addy yet if it wasn't for Mess.be. You're welcome!

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Just thought you would like to know

yays!
good news
i was wondering they won't close them

* CookieRevised goes stealing a car....

And they wont do anything about it because I'm already using it...




they are very quick to revoke awards, yet when people REALY abuse something they say "oh well, nothing to worry about"

lot of people has start using @live.com account. there cant close it