As you see, hotmail.com and msn.com are among the disallowed domains;
I think it may have mentioned gmail in the screen I saw the first
time.
It's especially odd because, didn't MS just buy Yahoo? My account is
with Verizon Yahoo.
I've just acquired a Black Friday-price Acer Windows 7 notebook (yay!
now I, too, can go through extra rigmarole at the airport!), and even
though it won't involve a new email account, maybe something about it
will be different. Or maybe Word2007 will magically be able to handle
Unicode 5.2 ranges just because (as I assume) Windows 7 can.
On Nov 27, 11:28*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
People used to complain that they were required to get a "Microsoft" (i.e..,
Hotmail or MSN) email account in order to get a Passport (the precursor to
Live ID) and were reassured that, despite appearances, any email address
could be used; the information about Hotmail or MSN was offered to assure
people that, even if they didn't have an ISP-provided email address (for
example, if they were dependent on public computers), they could get a
(free) Hotmail or MSN account and use that email address to get the
Passport. I assumed that was still the case, but if it's disallowing
@verizon.net, then I don't know what's going on.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ...
I just tried it again, and got a very different sign-up screen (with a
Secret Question and a type-the-characters box), and this time it
actually said that " is a "restricted domain" and I would
have to use a different email address.
Well, I don't have a different email address, so if they don't want me
to try out Office2010, it's their loss. I doubt many of their beta
users will be trying to type a character table and a sample text in
hPags Pa.
On Nov 27, 9:22 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
The password doesn't seem to be the problem, so perhaps the problem is
with
your email address. If you don't already have an email account with
Hotmail
or MSN, you can't use those, but you should be able to use any other email
address (I'm still using my mvps.org address).
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in
...
Is that the same as "Create a new Windows Live ID," which goes to
"Create Your Account," and is that something different and less
malicious than Office Live?
***
Well, it's moot, because after I filled in the form (with a password
containing only capital and small letters), it responded:
---
We are sorry, but we are unable to complete your request.
The following problem(s) exist:
•An error was encountered when we attempted to create your Windows
Live account.
Please ensure that you are not using any invalid characters in your
password (double-byte characters, spaces). Also, the following domains
to create a new Windows Live ID (these are reserved domains that
cannot be created through this process).
hotmail.com
msn.com
live.com
passport.com
---
On Nov 26, 9:33 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Whenever I log in on a "sign in" Live ID page, there's a panel to the
left
that says, "To get started, sign up for a Windows LiveT ID" and a button
labeled "Sign up now."
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in
...
Can't tell, since there was no evident way to sign up!
On Nov 26, 3:24 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Does it really require signing up for Office Live or just for a Live
ID
(the
latest version of Passport)?
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in
...
The first one would be, How do I get it? I went to Yves's link, saw
that I wouldn't expect to use any of the 10 "improvements" anyway
(though the one that recovers unsaved documents might be handy), but
if it can handle newly added Unicode ranges, then I need it, clicked
the Download button, and it took me to a page asking me to "Sign in.."
Signing in didn't work, so it suggested that maybe I need to sign _up_
first. But (a) that apparently means signing up for "Office Live,"
which I see from threads here can be quite problematic, and (b) there
wasn't any hint of how to sign up.
On Nov 26, 12:28 pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Ah, so it is... I foresee a lot of unanswerable questions in this
newsgroup, then.
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:09:05 +0100, "Yves Dhondt"
wrote:
Jay,
The beta is public now
(http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx) so I doubt
there
are
any restrictions on where to talk about it.
Yves-