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		vladvasiliu 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or o... > it's an easy way to motivate people to having a Microsoft account. Can you actually use a non-outlook account for windows? Or are you talking about a different kind of "ms account"?

zinekeller 38 days ago [–]

You can register a (personal, not M365) Microsoft Account without Outlook.com by just supplying a different email address in the signup portion.

Also you can have (or was that had - not sure) a (again personal, not Workspace) Google account without Gmail by using a different email address.

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