How To - Signup for Windows Live (MSN Messenger) without Creating an Email Address
Background Knowledge
If you go to signup.Live.com you will notice that you are required to create an email address either with live.com or hotmail.com. It appears for some reason that Microsoft has hidden the ability to sign up without creating an email address or create a limited account via live.com. Here is your options and how to do it.
Note: MSN Messenger is now called Windows Live Messenger.
Note: Signing up for an account provides a Windows Live ID that allows you to use all Windows Live services such as Windows Live Messenger.
Signup Options
- Sign up using your own email address
- Use an existing email address from any email provider of your choice (ie. example@somedomain.com). Using this method does not create a email address at hotmail.com or live.com.
- Sign up creating a email address at hotmail.com
- Creates a new email address using the MSN Hotmail.com service. This new email address will be used for your Windows Live ID.
- Sign up creating a email address at live.com
- Signs you up and creates an email address using live.com service.
- Sign up with a limited account
- A limited account allows you to use Windows Live services without having/creating an email address. The limited account creates a email address through passport.com, however the difference is you can not send or receive email messages with this email address nor can you retrieve your password if its forgotten.
Source: Windows Live ID
Source: Creating Msn Account Without A Hotmail Account
