I have two accounts, one hotmail and one outlook.com. The outlook.com address is my primary email and the hotmail account has been my main account for windows phone. I'd love to be able to merge these and get rid of the hotmail account but I've been told that it's not possible. The account linking option was a good workaround which made it very easy to switch between the two but Microsoft decided to kill that very useful feature.

Now I'm told that setting up aliases will be helpful except for one problem. When I try to enter the alias it says the account is already taken. Yes, it is BY ME!! This really is starting to seem like someones bad joke. Can anyone tell me what I'm suppose to do??