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> It was created when I transitioned my Xbox LIVE account to a Microsoft account on 2014-03-07 (the LIVE account was created back in 2006, and neither it nor my

> It was created when I transitioned my Xbox LIVE account to a Microsoft account on 2014-03-07 (the LIVE account was created back in 2006, and neither it nor my Microsoft account were ever joined to any other domains). Hoping this raised issue helps cleaning up some of the mess, I find it fascinating how bizantine microsoft have become. I also have a skype account that became some other other account, but was using the same email as my mojang account that got ported to live accounts. I kinda hope everything is neatly bound in the backend as I login through the live.com portal, but it feels like a miracle that it still works at all. It was the same kind of fun trying to log to flickr with a old converted yahoo account. Or dealing with amazon after merging multi-coutry accounts.

omnibrain 4y ago
> Or dealing with amazon Amazon used to allow having multiple accounts with the same email, but different passwords. And don’t ask what happens to personal accounts that get accidentally invited to corporate accounts via email adresses formerly used for the personal account.
- makeitdouble 4y ago
  I think it's still complicated. I wouldn't try to play too much with it, but you can use the "same" account across each of their national portals except parts of it seem to be local to the country, and many amazon apps don't have a notion of country (e.g. when logging to the prime app you only use the email and password, and it guesses from there. It actually finds the right item from an app downloaded from a different country's app store). I made a point to separate mail addresses by country to avoid getting hosed, but I'd imagine the fun trying to access Prime or kindle purchases from an account that has them in multiple national stores.
- Macha 4y ago
  Yeah, at some stage I had accounts on Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com with the same email. My .de and .co.uk accounts eventually got merged (no notification, just found one day I needed to start using my .co.uk password to log into .de), but my .com one is still semi-seperate and I need to go to amazon.com to manage my kindle ebooks still.

omnibrain 4y ago

> Or dealing with amazon Amazon used to allow having multiple accounts with the same email, but different passwords. And don’t ask what happens to personal accounts that get accidentally invited to corporate accounts via email adresses formerly used for the personal account.

makeitdouble 4y ago
I think it's still complicated. I wouldn't try to play too much with it, but you can use the "same" account across each of their national portals except parts of it seem to be local to the country, and many amazon apps don't have a notion of country (e.g. when logging to the prime app you only use the email and password, and it guesses from there. It actually finds the right item from an app downloaded from a different country's app store). I made a point to separate mail addresses by country to avoid getting hosed, but I'd imagine the fun trying to access Prime or kindle purchases from an account that has them in multiple national stores.
Macha 4y ago
Yeah, at some stage I had accounts on Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com with the same email. My .de and .co.uk accounts eventually got merged (no notification, just found one day I needed to start using my .co.uk password to log into .de), but my .com one is still semi-seperate and I need to go to amazon.com to manage my kindle ebooks still.