Hi, I don't know where to start. This is the second time I've been prompted to enter a 'code' that shall grant me access to my email even though I've only ever logged into it from the one address. I'd been forced to enter an email before which I'm sure is where the previous code was sent. What I don't understand is that if this is for my 'security' how was I able to change that email to something else completely - bounce it to a mate in across the globe who happened to be on the phone with me, who gave me the code to enter to access my own bloody email? Why does someone need to have an email to access an email? And how the **** does that work if you have 2 outlook addresses which require a code from the other locked outlook address? All your doing is pushing people to Gmail duh. When outlook prompted me saying "hey enter the code we sent you" What is the use of being able to change the email to anything you want? Is that secure or just 'Microsoft secure'? If I can change the email to whatever I want to get the code that's needed is this so much a security aspect for outlook or just an info grab so you can record peoples alternate email addresses? DISCUSS P.S. No, I'm not giving you my phone number, I have less security on my bank accounts and credit cards whose security is impeccable - its hotmail, get over it and let us just have our 'secret question'. PEACE

Yeah, it's <removed>This time they asked me to change my password to my e-mail address because it LOOKED LIKE someone was trying to access my account. This is stupid. For one thing I had to check my other e-mail address for a code to VERIFY it was ME. Now after verification I still need to change my password? It's soo stupid. Haven't I just proven it was me by providing a code? And if it wasn't me, ANYONE could change my password (if they had access to my other account). It's so totally ridiculous and non-sensical. Anyways, I even had to verify my e-mail address (again hotmail) when I was in Japan. This was painstaking since hotmail would send an e-mail to an e-mail adress I thought I couldn't access from there: my home e-mail address in the Netherlands. I don't know how I figured a way out. I could access my (home) e-mail account however by logging into my account at my internet provider. If I couldn't verify within a month they would've locked my (hotmail) account. Genius! I bet in most cases it's the people themselves that get locked out of their account because hotmail deemed them suspicious.

This is indeed very annoying. It literally cost me my business, time and energy just to try to get into my E-mail.

Microsoft 'Security' is stupid and annoying

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Hi,

I don't know where to start. This is the second time I've been prompted to enter a 'code' that shall grant me access to my email even though I've only ever logged into it from the one address. I'd been forced to enter an email before which I'm sure is where the previous code was sent. What I don't understand is that if this is for my 'security' how was I able to change that email to something else completely - bounce it to a mate in across the globe who happened to be on the phone with me, who gave me the code to enter to access my own bloody email?

Why does someone need to have an email to access an email? And how the **** does that work if you have 2 outlook addresses which require a code from the other locked outlook address? All your doing is pushing people to Gmail duh.
When outlook prompted me saying "hey enter the code we sent you" What is the use of being able to change the email to anything you want? Is that secure or just 'Microsoft secure'?
If I can change the email to whatever I want to get the code that's needed is this so much a security aspect for outlook or just an info grab so you can record peoples alternate email addresses?

DISCUSS

P.S. No, I'm not giving you my phone number, I have less security on my bank accounts and credit cards whose security is impeccable - its hotmail, get over it and let us just have our 'secret question'.

PEACE

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2016-05-16T15:17:27+00:00

Yeah, it's <removed>This time they asked me to change my password to my e-mail address because it LOOKED LIKE someone was trying to access my account. This is stupid. For one thing I had to check my other e-mail address for a code to VERIFY it was ME. Now after verification I still need to change my password? It's soo stupid. Haven't I just proven it was me by providing a code? And if it wasn't me, ANYONE could change my password (if they had access to my other account). It's so totally ridiculous and non-sensical.

Anyways, I even had to verify my e-mail address (again hotmail) when I was in Japan. This was painstaking since hotmail would send an e-mail to an e-mail adress I thought I couldn't access from there: my home e-mail address in the Netherlands. I don't know how I figured a way out. I could access my (home) e-mail account however by logging into my account at my internet provider. If I couldn't verify within a month they would've locked my (hotmail) account. Genius! I bet in most cases it's the people themselves that get locked out of their account because hotmail deemed them suspicious.
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2015-10-14T18:20:21+00:00

This is indeed very annoying. It literally cost me my business, time and energy just to try to get into my E-mail.
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