How to merge 2 Microsoft accounts?

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Hello,

I created a Outlook email account and I have a other outlook email address that used to be a Hotmail address. Before I knew that you can rename a Outlook account I created another account with the same name. Is it possible to merge the two accounts.

Thanks,

Original Title: Delete new Outlook.com email address and rename current .hotmail.com to the Outlook.com email address

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Anonymous

2014-04-11T21:37:05+00:00

Thanks much!

Did a little digging, and my real reason for merging my accounts is to get my purchases from my old account to my new one - found a way to do this with an Xbox 360 :)
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Anonymous

2014-08-26T17:30:09+00:00

very nice idea, Dave!! How did you do it with the Xbox??
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Anonymous

2014-08-26T18:06:59+00:00

Hi cbaptist!

To be clear, what I found only moves purchases from one Microsoft account to another:

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/my-account/manage-gamertag-and-profile/switch-gamertag-to-different-microsoft-account

There are caveats to this approach, which are listed in the article.
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Anonymous

2015-06-25T11:54:01+00:00

add account does not exist under the main page menu. have better directions?
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