You can sign in to your account with any alias, and you only have to remember a single password for all of them. It uses the same inbox, contact list, and account settings as the primary alias. You can either create a new email address (alias) or set an existing email address to be your primary alias.Īn alias is like a nickname for your account that can be an email address, phone number, or Skype name. You can rename your personal account, which means using a different email address to sign in to it. The “Personal account" was either created by you directly or created automatically when creating a Skype or Xbox account. com domain name matches that of your personal account.
The “Work or school account" was either created on purpose by your organization's IT department, or in rare cases, accidentally by another organization whose. How can I have two accounts with the same email address? If you see a screen asking, "Which account do you want to use?" when you sign in, it means that you may have two accounts with Microsoft using the same email address.