

It published a page of instructions about how to rename your personal account. Microsoft is not completely blind to this problem. If you’re lucky you can do it without too much disruption by “renaming” your personal Microsoft account. My advice, then, if you’re using the same email address for both Microsoft work and personal accounts: get an email address and use it as your Microsoft personal account. Trying to use OneDrive will make you feel weak and disoriented – roughly like being dehydrated but not as much fun. When you use the same email address to log into Microsoft’s overlapping personal and business services, it is almost impossible to understand where you are in the maze.

For example, if you see your work email address when you log into your computer, it might be a personal Microsoft account as well as a business Office 365 account.

dense.”ĭense? My article was a model of clarity. “I read your article about personal Microsoft accounts and business Office 365 accounts,” my wife said last week. (2 – click here for an updated, shorter version of this article.)
