As I have mentioned in previous post, it pays to get a good and decent MSN account. However, what happened if your MSN account is not the exactly the most professional looking? Well… I have discovered several options you can have.

Make a new account and import your existing contact people to new account. Dump the old account

Just google ‘creating new windows live account’ and ‘exporting and importing msn contact’

Make a new account and keep the old account. Add necessary contact the more professional account manually. Use Messenger Plus! To run two account concurrently.

Google ‘messenger plus!’

If you use email OTHER than @hotmail.com / @live.com / @msn.com as your live ID, go to account setting and click ‘change’ (see picture)

I forgot the sequence but you could easily find it in. In short you can change your abc@def.com live id into 123@456.com easily. I would not recommend you to change to @hotmail.com / @live.com / @msn.com though for reason I will mentioned shortly.

If you use @hotmail.com / @live.com / @msn.com, create a new live ID and use TrueSwitch to seamlessly migrate to another @hotmail.com / @live.com / @msn.com live id account.

Notice that Microsoft will not allow you to use another email as your live id. Once you are in their domain, you will be trapped there forever. Smart. Penalizing their loyal underlings for being loyal.

https://secure5.trueswitch.com/winlive/

Happy migrating from your old msn account.

Oh… this is my 100th post up to date

In my previous post (long time ago), I write a lot about extrovert people who put nicknames that are more informative yet less relevant than Wikipedia. Nevertheless, after finishing Velina Collin’s ‘Finishing Touch’ module, I am convinced that maybe it is a good idea for many SMU student to start changing their MSN account. And when I say MSN account, it means the email that you usually used to sign in.

For your information, most SMU students use MSN as main platform of instant messaging (IM). One can testify that there is more than 95% chance that students will ask “What is your MSN!” instead of Yahoo! Messenger or GTalk or AOL or Jabber or maybe IRC #Channel! In addition, having suffer in SMU for almost two years, I could confidently put a random number of 90% to represent a portion of students who have MSN account before they enrolled to the campus that they love.

Based on my observation on numerous MSN accounts, I often found people with rather childish MSN account such as

Angelbusted_88@hot…
Baron_nitez@hot…
Great_grumpy_man@hot…
momotora@hot…
kokakolavenger@hot…
Life_is_kind_of_beautiful@hot
nyaaah@hot…

And the list goes on…

(the above list is purely fictional. Any resemblance to real account is either a mere coincidence or a figment of your wild imagination)

Ok. I do not intend to judge anyone. I just find people who do not properly identify themselves are a bit confusing - sometimes to the point of annoyance. After all, one cannot expect people with low memory cell like me to memorize 300+ emails associated with numerous nicks that keep changing depending on individuals’ hormonal change as they reach adolescence. In short, proper email address can help poor people like me to identify many of my friends.

Imagine…

Boy : “Hi. Nice to meet you”
Girl : “Nice to meet you too. Do you have MSN?”
Boy : “Sure. Just add me. HappyGayGuy@hotmale.com”
Girl : “Err.. ok. Bye. Cya” (scamper away to the nearest rest room)

Or maybe…

Boss : “welcome to the company kids”
Intern : “thank you”
Boss : “do you have msn?’
Intern : “Yeah. You can add great_slasher_samurai_X_1249832487@msn.com”
Boss : “… can you drop me an email on that?”

And the sure deal breaker (especially in the Middle East region).

Cust A: “Can we discuss this over internet”
You : “Sure. Just add our MSN. My msn: MyGODIsGreaterThanYours@hotmall.com while Joe’s is Israel_Rox@mesem.com”

Honestly, my msn account is neither the most informative nor politically correct. Yet, I guess in term of readability and professionalism, my msn email is reasonable and understandable despite a tinge of extra information on my religious background. ;p How about your MSN account?

Next… before you apply for your MSN account…