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Originally posted by Mentality
(...) without having to change their email address to an MSN/Hotmail account then intigration wouldn't have to be a point of call (...)
yes it will.... signing up to the .NET Network will not make integration any easier or whatever. There is absolutely no difference at all if you sign up or not with whatever email address you use. You still are using two very different networks.
The only benefit signing up to the .NET network will have is that you don't need to create a specific hotmail email. But both accounts will still be very very different and both can only be used on the specific networks.
Thus, it is not an alternative at all, it's simply a convenient benefit that you can use any email address to sign up to the .NET network, you still need to use specific clients and specific accounts for the specific networks which the OP doesn't want.
The .NET passport is nothing more than a login name which coincidently is your email address; If I sign up to a website with the same login name than which I used on another website doesn't make both websites suddenly integrated or able to exchange info with eachother, both are still very different accounts without any integration between them at all, they just have the same login name
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