I've just bought a new PC and was going through the process of setting it up when I received a prompt to start a Microsoft Account. I just assumed it was part of the setting up process and duly signed up. Then I went to my emails and I saw there were two login boxes instead of the usual one. I picked one of the boxes at random and entered my usual password and it didn't work, so on a hunch I entered my newly acquired Microsoft Account and hey presto it opened my emails. Imagine my shock and horror when I found my email inbox completely empty of emails, (over 100 going back six years) apart from two which surprise surprise were from Microsoft newly arrived. I desperately searched my Deleted box for all my emails and they weren't there either and I went into a cold sweat. I then went to the retrieve deleted emails option and thankfully they were there. I then had to go through the long and laborious process of retrieving each one.
I've looked into this Microsoft Account and it transpires it is the new name for Windows Live Messenger. Had I known this I would never have signed up. I now want to delete my Windows Account so my question is are there any repercussions. Will I be punished for deserting them and leaving them like a woman scorned?
What makes me worry about this is first the email thing. If they can delete all my emails what else can they do?
I've also gone on to their site to look at the process and there seems to be a bit of scaremongering going on before telling me how to leave them. They say i'll lose the email account associated with the account and I won't be able to use Outlook or Office 365.
The email account isn't @hotmail, @outlook, @msn or at [MENTION=27918]Liv[/MENTION]e so it says it won't affect me but after what happened to all my emails I don't entirely trust them.
I also discovered that I could still use my original email password by going to the second login box. By then I had already retrieved all my deleted emails, but this got me thinking. If I had used this login to access my emails at first instead of the other one would I have still discovered all my emails had been deleted from my inbox?
Any advice would be appreciated. Here's the link to the Microsoft Account closure information which is a bit scaremongery as I said.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/closing-microsoft-account
I've looked into this Microsoft Account and it transpires it is the new name for Windows Live Messenger. Had I known this I would never have signed up. I now want to delete my Windows Account so my question is are there any repercussions. Will I be punished for deserting them and leaving them like a woman scorned?
What makes me worry about this is first the email thing. If they can delete all my emails what else can they do?
I've also gone on to their site to look at the process and there seems to be a bit of scaremongering going on before telling me how to leave them. They say i'll lose the email account associated with the account and I won't be able to use Outlook or Office 365.
The email account isn't @hotmail, @outlook, @msn or at [MENTION=27918]Liv[/MENTION]e so it says it won't affect me but after what happened to all my emails I don't entirely trust them.
I also discovered that I could still use my original email password by going to the second login box. By then I had already retrieved all my deleted emails, but this got me thinking. If I had used this login to access my emails at first instead of the other one would I have still discovered all my emails had been deleted from my inbox?
Any advice would be appreciated. Here's the link to the Microsoft Account closure information which is a bit scaremongery as I said.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/closing-microsoft-account