微软已经悄悄地更新了 Windows Live Account 页面，现在的页面采用了新的 Live Wave2 外观。另外，增加了一个新功能：链接 Windows Live ID。

当你登录 Windows Live Account 选项，或Account 首页的时候，你就能看到该新功能了。如果你需要链接你的帐号，只需要输入现用帐号的密码和需要链接的帐号的地址和密码。

根据官方帮助文件：

如果您工作和生活使用不同的 Windows Live ID，则可以将这些帐户链接在一起。当链接一个以上的 Windows Live ID 后，在使用一个帐户登录到 Windows Live 站点或服务的同时，您还可以访问和链接的帐户相关的信息。

该功能非常方便，如：在使用 Hotmail 的时候，需要切换至已经链接的帐号，在右上角点击用户名，在下拉菜单中选择需要登录的帐号即可，从此不再需要重新输入密码。注：在任何采用 Live Wave2 导航栏的在线服务才可使用该功能。

另外一个更新就是，个人资料页面也更新了，显示了共享个人资料，以及正在使用的服务（Beta 和客户端不被列出）。

LiveSide: Update to Windows Live Account enables Linked IDs

自 Paypal.com 和 EBay 使用 SSL 协议之后，微软终于在 Windows Live ID 登录站点 Login.live.com 使用了SSL 加密协议。

现在在访问 login.live.com ，你会看到 IE7 的地址栏出现了绿色提示：

更新：下周On10.net上会有不少相关视频，我们会继续关注。

来源：login.live.com uses SSL Extended Velidation Certificate

Windows Live Chronicles 的 Jacky Mok 给了我们一些关于注册 @live 地址的信息：

We’ll be launching our @live.XX domain “in the coming months“.  We’ll have communication campaigns that go live way before we launch the service, so that you guys will have a heads up.  Stay tuned!

Jacky Mok 表示 @live.** 的地址将会在接下来的几个月里开放注册，应该也就是在秋季。相信很多朋友已经在之前的几次的漏洞事件中，获得了自己喜欢的地址了，但目前仍不知微软将采取何种措施来转移帐户信息。

信息来源：A little more information on @live domain launch

Angus Logan在博客中提到：Windows Live ID 网络身份验证SDK 今天已经达到了1.0版，并且现在可以下载。这意味着网站可以轻松整合Windows Live ID身份验证来登录网站，以利用Windows Live的巨大平台基础。

我们很早就开始关注Windows Live 网络身份验证开发了（Colin发布了3篇相关的文章1， 2 ，3），并且他将很快更新那些。那么自上次Mix以来，更新了些什么呢？根据Angus，更新如下：

1. ASP.NET, Ruby, Java, Perl, Python, PHP的范例
2. Application ID-已经不再是测试了，重要的一点是那些提供Live ID 身份验证服务的网站，验证的是实际使用的帐号，而不是内部帐号。 （这里指的是@hotmail这样的地址，不是@hotmail-int的地址）
3. SDK 文档取代了白皮书；现在已经出现在MSDN2 （http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=91762）
4. 许多范例已经可以从Microsoft.com 获得（http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=91761）

在文章中，他指出了一个非常 有用的页面，在 dev.live.com 上面有许多关于Windows Live ID 的开发文档，无论是网络身份验证，还是客户端身份验证，都可以在上面找到。

来源：Windows Live ID Web Authentication Is Final

我们的朋友Belem和LiveSide的Kip 就之前“微软是否会收回非正常渠道获得的@live帐号？”事件询问了微软相关人士，并取得了官方的回复。

I have new information and wanted to let you know that we will not be closing @live.com accounts that are in active use.   Our desire is to not penalize enthusiastic customers who created accounts prior to the official release.  This decision was reached several weeks back and has now been communicated across the various involved teams here.

Sorry for any confusion,
Scott

据微软最新的承诺, 将不会收回正在使用的@live.com 帐号，对于绝大多数的@live 用户来说都是安全的。

最终, 项目经理II Scott 给了 Ray 一个圆满的答复。现在事件已经结束了，希望大家不要再传播删号的消息了，在此感谢。

相关信息：Belem’s Blog - 圆满结束

来自微软员工的问答电子邮件显示,他们计划收回非正常渠道注册的@live.com,这意味着前些日子通过4次漏洞注册的帐户可能会被回收,时间大约是3周内,其实早在去年也有相关的消息传出,但微软一直没有下手。内含来往信件全文,信件中微软员工明确提到3周内回收帐户,用户有3周时间备份邮件日程数据和联系人。

至今为止，微软官方并未给出答复，我们LiveSino.net将继续关注此次事件。

更新：上午Belem得到的消息是, 据微软内部最新的承诺, 所有 @live 账号将不会被删除. 这意味着对于绝大多数的@live 来说都是安全的。LiveSino将继续关注。

From: Scott.Sxxxxxxx@microsoft.com
To: ray@live.com
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:27:26 -0700
Subject: RE: Investigating “ Ray@Live.com” account

Thanks for your kind response.

Unfortunately, I’m not in control of that process. I was only asked to follow up on several account to provide you a polite notification.

Because we do not have public registration open for Live.com accounts yet, all Live.com accounts currently created are considered “test” accounts. Test accounts are scheduled to be deleted in approximately 3 weeks as a pre-release step prior to the official launch of Live Mail.

You can use this 3 week period to export your address book (Options >> Export Contacts) and redirect contacts. I’m very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Please let me know if you have any questions,

Scott

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From: Lei Huang [mailto:ray@live.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:09 AM
To: Scott Sxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Investigating “Ray@Live.com ” account

Scott.Sxxxxxxx,

I’m very glad to receive your email.
If you want to know how I can get this account, please search the Internet and you find several bugs can be used before your official rollout.
In addition, there are a lot of friends and business partners in my friend list of this account. If you delect it, you will make a big trouble for me.
Thanks for regarding.

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From: Scott Sxxxxxxx <Scott.Sxxxxxxx@microsoft.com>
Date: 2007-7-25 9:57pm
Subject: RE: Investigating “Ray@Live.com ” account
To: Ray <Ray@live.com>

Thanks for your reply,

I’m very sorry for the misunderstanding. My intent is not to threaten and I trust your intent is also not to threaten. J

We simply haven’t released @Live.com addresses for public use yet. The good news is that the official release of @ Live.com email registration is in several months.

As part of that launch, we are looking at addresses that were ‘pre-registered’ typically through a registration bug where a query string value could be changed to the Live.com domain value. There were also a small number of accounts which were issued to internal Microsoft team members that worked on shipping Live Mail. Some of those team members work in our China development group which is why I inquired if you were a Microsoft employee.

Scott

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From: Ray [mailto: Ray@live.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:02 AM
To: Scott Sxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Investigating ” Ray@Live.com ” account

Who says the Windows Live ID only can be registered by MS employee?
If you have any document to indicated it, please share it to me.
Or I will let others know how arbitrary and outrageous MS employee is.

Thanks
Ray

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2007/7/25, Scott Sxxxxxxx <Scott.Sxxxxxxx@microsoft.com>:

Are you a Microsoft employee?

I’m looking into how several accounts were created prior to the official rollout of @Live.com accounts.

Please respond by Friday or the account may be deleted.

Thanks,

Scott

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From: mail@live.com
To: ray@live.com
Subject: *DETECTED* Online User Violation
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:00:35 +1000

Dear Live Member,

We have temporarily suspended your email account ray@live.com.

This might be due to either of the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address).
2. Submiting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
3. An innability to accurately verify your selected option of subscription due to an internal error within our processors.
See the details to reactivate your Live account.

Sincerely,The Live Support Team

来源：@live.com is deleted without any legitimacy, who will be the next???

如今@live.com 地址又可以通过特殊方法注册目前不可注册，请等待下一波吧，我们继续关注。:P

1. 访问 www.hotmail.com，点击注册，和以前一样选择免费的帐号。
2. 现在，你看到的是注册@hotmail.com 的地址。
3. 修改地址栏中的地址hmnewuser.aspx为newuser.aspx，并删除后面的&hm=1参数
4. 你的 @hotmail 地址变成了 @live.

举例： https://signup.live.com/hmnewuser.aspx?mkt=en-us&hm=1&ru=http://mail.live.com

修改为：

https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=en-us&ru=http://mail.live.com

更新，如需@live.com地址，只需修改浏览器语言为en-US。

来源：live Address Registration - part 4