Cancelling subscription - will I still have the same MS Account name

Sam Vimes said:

I'm considering cancelling my MS365 subscription. Am I right in assuming that I will still have an MS Account with the same username and password but just lose access to all the MS365 programs - Outlook, Onedrive, Word etc?

Yes, that is correct.

@SoFine409 is right on the money. I'm just adding, as a related aside, that I have been unable to change the original email address that I first signed up with, though long since out-of-use and actually deleted. I have added, and am allowed to use for all my logins, my new email address. But the system has held onto my original one like a dog with a bone and I have not been able to fix this in any of the available settings that I have discovered, despite quite long sessions looking. It is extremely annoying, not to mention pointless, as I have no access to the original email.

If anyone reading this knows how I can overcome this problem, please hook me up, for which thanks in advance.

Regards,

Christophe

CMArbres said:

@SoFine409 is right on the money. I'm just adding, as a related aside, that I have been unable to change the original email address that I first signed up with, though long since out-of-use and actually deleted. I have added, and am allowed to use for all my logins, my new email address. But the system has held onto my original one like a dog with a bone and I have not been able to fix this in any of the available settings that I have discovered, despite quite long sessions looking. It is extremely annoying, not to mention pointless, as I have no access to the original email.

If anyone reading this knows how I can overcome this problem, please hook me up, for which thanks in advance.

Regards,

Christophe

I share your frustration with an “original” email never being changeable. MS calls any additional email addresses that you might add an “alias”. From experience I know that other organizations that have user accounts have the same restrictions, nVidia comes to mind. It likely has to do with the way their databases are set up. In my former life as a programmer, I remember that some database fields simply cannot be changes after the initial record is created.

SoFine409 said:

I share your frustration with an “original” email never being changeable. MS calls any additional email addresses that you might add an “alias”. From experience I know that other organizations that have user accounts have the same restrictions, nVidia comes to mind. It likely has to do with the way their databases are set up. In my former life as a programmer, I remember that some database fields simply cannot be changes after the initial record is created.

Yep, I get it. I have the same problem with Dashlane, AVG and Reaper. Nothing I can do about it it seems. At least they all know how to contact me, and that's the main thing. Thanks for the tea and sympathy. Appreciated.

Christophe