Does no one else hit this bug???

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Simon Wigzell

You are setting up a new mail accoutn in outlook e.g. (e-mail address removed).
On the page where you enter the password, it defaults to a user name of
"someone". Microsoft must know what it's doing, millions of people have been
using outlook for decades. So you accept the default user name and specify
your password and move on. Then when you try to receive mail, it refuses to
let you past the password form. And you can cus and rant and call support
and remove and remake your account and it will never work! Because the user
name that the account needs is the full (e-mail address removed) not just
"someone" as Microsoft suggest. I have an IQ of 150. I've been using
computers for 15 years. I've just spent a week on this problem. I finally
figured it out for myself. I guess I'm really a moron.

Question : Does it make any sense for Outlook to trip you up this way by not
defaulting to the full name?
Question : Am I the only moron of hundreds of millions of Outlook users who
got fooled by this?

I swear, I'm going to give up computers and do something usefull like ditch
digging.
 
I suspect that Microsoft made Outlook work that way because 80% of ISPs use someone, not (e-mail address removed) as the login name.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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