How to delete a Microsoft account
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Microsoft is a major company on the web as well, so it’s common to have one or more accounts of its services, sometimes even without knowing it. It may happen that, even simply to put things in order, you choose to delete a Microsoft account that maybe you no longer use, or which you decide to do without.
In this article we will look in detail how to remove a Microsoft account and all the precautions to be taken before permanently deleting the account.
Attention, from the 2021 version of Microsoft Office it will no longer be possible to use the suite of office applications without a Microsoft account, if you want to do without the Microsoft account we recommend that you take a look at our article on the best alternatives to Office or use an older version of Microsoft Office.
A Microsoft account is an email address associated with various services, the most popular and used are undoubtedly: Office 365, Teams, Xbox Game Pass, One Drive, Skype, Outlook and Xbox Live.
When we talk about Microsoft accounts we often think they are only e-mail accounts registered with the “outlook.it” domain or with the “outlook.com” one.
Instead there are many other domains that can be used: for example “live.it”, “live.com”, “hotmail.it” “hotmail.com”.
These are only the most common ones for registrations in Italy, then it must be considered that for each country a different domain is often dedicated, so the “variants” that can be used for account names are very numerous!
Microsoft, in the various periods, he proposed indeed different domains for email and the accounts associated with its services, but they are all traceable to the same infrastructure and manageable in the same way.
In addition, there are also institutional or corporate Microsoft accounts that have a custom domain, these are also manageable in the same way as the others (unless limited by the administrator).
There are some preliminary steps you need to do to make sure you don’t run into problems after deleting a Microsoft account. Here’s how to get around:
Before proceeding to illustrate the ways to delete a Microsoft account, we remind you that it is not possible to delete an account without logging into the account itself, so if you do not remember your credentials (username and password) we invite you to consult our article on how to recover your account password.
If you have associated your account with Microsoft services, you should check that your Office 365, Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Live subscriptions have expired, it would be a shame to give the company services for which you have already paid.
For this we advise you to check the page dedicated to services, after logging in you will see all active subscriptions, make sure there are no active services associated with the account.
Also, you have to check that there are no important documents on the One Drive space associated with the account, because once the account will be deleted too the data on One Drive will be deleted forever.
Finally, if you have used email it could be important export important contacts.
Per save your contacts it is necessary to export the email contacts, it is not too complex, just:
At this point, a file in CSV format will be prepared and downloaded which is compatible with email clients, Outlook and most other web-mails.
On desktop you can access the full version of the Microsoft account management panel and this makes it very easy to delete it, just:
At this point the procedure will be completed, you will have 30 or 60 days (depending on your choice) before the definitive cancellation of the Microsoft account.
If you want recover a Microsoft account before final deletion, just carry out these steps before the end of the days indicated in the cancellation phase:
Instead, after 30 or 60 days (depending on the interval chosen) the deleted Microsoft account will no longer be recoverable.
The procedure is also the same for deleting a Microsoft account from mobile (therefore from an Android or Apple device), since the site is responsive (so the website interface adapts to the device screen).
On the Windows operating system, having an associated Microsoft account is now practically mandatory.
Once you proceed to delete a Microsoft account you have to also delete it from the Windows operating system of the device you are using, fortunately this is simple, just:
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