Managing personal Outlook.com account settings, security, and privacy
What a shambolic mess. My father is in the same boat as everyone else and is in a panic because he is expecting very important emails from solicitors regarding the sale of his house and cannot get into his account.
I've been with him and watched him fill out the information on the recovery process - which is 100% correct - and it still fails. 4 days on, numerous attempts and he has nowhere to turn.
According to the following page on the Microsoft website the only option for him now is to create a new account. This is absolutely absurd. Lets just say he won't be creating a Microsoft account if it comes to this. They should be utterly ashamed.