Comments on: Microsoft Live ID – How many do you have?

By: Andrew Laxton

Andrew Laxton — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:23:00 +0000

Hi Andy,

I also maintain two live ID’s for exactly the same reasons, one for work which is my work email address and my personal one for everything else.

I even got MS to transfer all my existing subscriptions to my work email address and it has my MCP too.

I also have different profiles for different parts of the MS site for one email address, so work stuff goes to our office, but things like my Technet Magazine go to my home address.

Also congrats on your new arrival

Andy

By: Nick Lloyd

Nick Lloyd — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:12:36 +0000

I’ve had stuff from Microsoft sent to my personal address, I think something for MAPs once got sent there! I discovered at one point the address for Sirona was listed as my home address – useless…

Congrats on the birth of your daughter too Andy. My wife is a week overdue with our first, also a girl. The sooner the better as far as we’re concerned!

Nick

By: Richard Tubb

Richard Tubb — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:10:20 +0000

Andy – I have two Live ID’s, one for work, one for personal – primarily so I can sign into Live Messenger with two different sets of “friends”.

However my blog (www.tubblog.co.uk – hosted at the truly appalling Live Spaces) is published under my personal Live ID so I then get work contacts adding me as a personal “friend”. It all gets a bit confusing after that.

I think Vlad was one of the first to suggest that within a single ID you should be able to categorise people as “Work Friend”, “On-Line Friend”, “Real Friend” and so on – so rather than having to switch ID’s, you can simply switch persona’s – i.e. I’m at work – I’m at home, etc.

I also got off the ‘phone to MS Partner Support yesterday dealing with the address issue. Sigh.

Reading that back, I’m actually now more confused than ever. I’ll shut up now.