Tried -- failed. Login through MS, then get screen that it's unavailable.
Come on, MS.
Come on, MS.
It's literally right after the link. What did you expect? It's a breaking story, the product was just announced and in the conference it was announced as available later today.
FWIW, the response I get is: Sorry, but we're having trouble signing you in. We received a bad request.
(I'm logged in with the same account through other services.)
>"To unblock your account go to https://account.live.com and sign in to your blocked account."
If I try to enter my number, I get an unspecified error and I'm still locked out. Obviously. But not to worry, the page says:
>"If you can’t unblock your account with the security code and changing your password, customer support can still help you get your account back. To contact customer support, you’ll need to sign in to your account, and fill out an online form."
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I really don't know what kind of brain-dead monkeys they put in charge of these things. And while it's hard to believe that a functioning human being could ever come up with such a bullet-proof procedure to unblock an account blocked for "security reasons", what really baffles me is that this has been going on for almost two years. This should give you an idea of how much Microsoft cares about their consumer products.
So, consider yourself lucky to have gone past the login, which, apparently, isn't something to take for granted with Microsoft.
[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook/account-t...
Give it a try, it might give you access to your account again.
Try with https://account.live.com/acsr it's the page it eventually sends me to for the recovery.
If any Microsoft engineers happen to be scanning this thread, it correctly redirected me to our organizations login page for me to use my standard credentials, but failed after with a generic Bad Request error.