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Subject: Bungie.net login system - Hotmail is retiring

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  • 08.01.2012 12:04 PM PDT

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Im using outlook now,changed my email name and every thing works fine.

  • 08.01.2012 12:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: Achronos
You're confusing two seperate things - Windows Live ID (now know as Microsoft Accounts) and Hotmail.

Hotmail uses a Microsoft Account to authenticate, just like Bungie.net. So does Live.com email. So does the new Outlook. So does some modes of Windows 8. So does Xbox Live.

Underlying it all, though, are Microsoft Accounts. What's special about the Hotmail change is that normally, you cannot change the login name for Microsoft Accounts if they are hotmail or live.com email address. I'm pretty sure that the migration process will allow you to do so, but to bungie.net, you'll still be the same account.

Whatever the case - the key is Windows Account == Windows Live ID, but Hotmail/Live.com/Outlook != Windows Account, they just use them to authenticate.


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  • 08.01.2012 12:59 PM PDT

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Something tells me we wont be able to change our usernames.
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I can't wait till we can change our sign in info and usernames hopefully.

  • 08.01.2012 1:12 PM PDT

I think I got it. So, if the old extensions aren't going to work you would go to outlook.com and login there, then go to bungie.net and hit the login?

If those extensions are retiring, wouldn't you still have to change your email address associated with your bungie.net account to a @outlook.com?

[Edited on 08.01.2012 1:24 PM PDT]

  • 08.01.2012 1:15 PM PDT

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The old extensions will still work. Even though Microsoft is making outlook.com the primary email service, all current hotmail users will still be able to keep their hotmail.com address.

Although, everyone will be migrated to outlook eventually.
(I'm not sure if that means they will be given an @outlook.com or if they will just log in through outlook.com )

[Edited on 08.01.2012 1:26 PM PDT]

  • 08.01.2012 1:23 PM PDT

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Explanation for people who are still confused if you change your name.

Let's say my old email name was jose291@hotmail.com made in 2004.

So, I decide to change my name just to j291@hotmail.com
I will still keep @hotmail.com because I am an old account, however if you make a new account today, it will have @outlook.com

When you change your name, outlook will do the rest, to update your email name and still use your old one. It will make you a carpet to keep receiving emails from your old name account at the same time with your new name.

Me, I am getting use to this, I can log to: xbox.com, Bungie and other sites with my new email name and I will log normally as I've all these years.

Even my xbox live profile just got updated with my new email name.

  • 08.01.2012 3:43 PM PDT

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It's going to be pretty disastrous if MS takes hotmail offline. Alot of people (myself included) have @hotmail addresses tied to accounts all over the net. Many of those require you to answer a confirmation email to change your existing address.

In my personal case, I also have to make a new PGP key and sign it with my old one (which has an @hotmail adress tied to it). Hurray for lavabit I suppose.

  • 08.01.2012 4:30 PM PDT

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  • 08.01.2012 10:27 PM PDT

It's going to be pretty disastrous if MS takes hotmail offline. Alot of people (myself included) have @hotmail addresses tied to accounts all over the net. Many of those require you to answer a confirmation email to change your existing address.

In my personal case, I also have to make a new PGP key and sign it with my old one (which has an @hotmail adress tied to it). Hurray for lavabit I suppose.


Microsoft aren't taking Hotmail offline, they're taking the Hotmail UI offline!

All that's going to happen in the end is instead of signing in and seeing a Windows Live Hotmail interface, everyone will have an Outlook.com interface.

The hotmail/live addresses won't be changed unless you choose to change them.

[Edited on 08.06.2012 10:59 AM PDT]

  • 08.06.2012 10:56 AM PDT

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