


I remembered having previously signed up for an Azure trial account - somewhere between 5 to 10 years ago - to study the cloud service while I was still an IT Systems Engineer. Recently, I again dug some more into the long-running issue and decided to contact Microsoft Azure support. Since I had found workarounds to still allow me to use my email addresses with Microsoft Windows and other services, it was no longer a priority to pursue.

I had given up for some time and thought that the issue arose after I had previously applied a Microsoft Extended Warranty for Business towards one of my personal Microsoft Surface Pro devices. Numerous contacts to Microsoft for support went nowhere over the years. “But I never associated my domain with a work or school Microsoft account,” I thought to myself. Use a personal email, such as Gmail or Yahoo!, or get a new Outlook email.” Attempting to do so would throw an ominous error message: “ You can’t sign up here with a work or school email address. ) could NOT be used as the first account added to a fresh installation of Windows 10 (or 11) or be granted an Office 365 subscription.

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