Monday, March 25, 2013

Microsoft Cloud Services Locks You Out Of Your Digital Life, Won’t Explain Why

<p>Microsoft wants to be the provider of all of your cloud services, from webmail (Outlook) to storage (SkyDrive), aiming for the same market as cloud services from competitors like Google and Apple. The new product has a lot of fans, including Josh. Well, Josh was a big fan until Microsoft abruptly locked him out of his account and won't tell him why.</p><p>He isn't just locked out of his e-mail account and work files. It's even worse: he's locked out of his Windows Live games account. Nooooooooo!</p><p>He writes:</p><p>3 weeks ago I suddenly got an error message that my skydrive couldn't sync my folders, upon further research I found out that my Microsoft account was "temporarily blocked" (to this day that's what it says when I try and logon) it said it may have to do with getting hacked so I changed my password, that didn't work.</p><p><a href="http://consumerist.com/2013/03/25/microsoft-outlook-locks-you-out-of-your-digital-life-wont-explain-why/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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