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11/11/25

Hello, As you may have seen from the main page, my name is Gio. In this little article here, please bare with me while I explain my desperate need for a @live.com email address in the big '26.

I have multiple e-mail accounts already, all of which I already use on a day-to-day basis. Each one serves a different purpose. For example, I have one e-mail address specifically dedicated to newsletters and other potentially unwanted communications. I have another one specifically used for important aspects of my daily life, such as banking, cell phone accounts, etc.

I actually have two @live.co.uk e-mail accounts. all of which are filled with spam and have not been in active use since the late 2010s. One of them is ****@live.co.uk, which I am proud of. The other one is t**************@live.co.uk, so certainly longer and less worthy bragging material. Though not in active use, I do keep them logged in on my cell phone's Outlook app, just to see some of the more nostalgic messages come through, like old subscription services or newsletters. I also keep them monitored to make sure that they do not show up on the dark web.

Frustratingly, there are plenty of online services that won't let me change my e-mail on file with them to one of the more timeless ones that I have. Honestly, I'm more than willing to clear the spam and junk out of both inboxes, if it meant that I could use them with my US-based services. But the reality is that the majority of them just don't.

Just a week or two ago, actually, I spent $9.99 on a MSN Premium subscription. There used to be a loophole that allowed users to create @msn.com alias addresses in the setup of the MSN Explorer (or whatever.) The installer unfortulately froze multiple times while I tried to get this to work. At least I was able to get a full refund.

The reason that I want one of these older Microsot e-mails (passport.com, windowslive.com, live.com, msn.com) is because I associate those older and now impossible-to-obtain e-mail addresses with the nostalgic feeling of the late 90s and early 2000s, in terms of the evolution and development of the internet. Sure, I have a Gmail account, a Hotmail account, but nothing lives up to the meaning and permanence of those addresses.

Part of that nostalgic feeling is recognizing that Windows XP, Vista, and even 7 cemented the importance and relevance of that specific "this is the future of the internet" design language that began to take over the internet for a few years. I have other websites* that demonstrate this design language to the best of my ability. Otherwise, search terms like frutiger aero and frutiger metro will bring up results that should explain the concept adequately.