I received an email yesterday stating that a change of password had been requested on my account and gave a code to allow the change to happen.

No such change was requested by me, the account holder, so I am very doubtful about the email.  Especially so as it was sent to the 'standard' *** Email address is removed for privacy *** account and not the email account set for security purposes!  Further, it gave a 'link' to https://account.live.com so as such links are frequently suspect with spoofed or hidden redirections I manually typed that into my Firefox browser.  But nothing happened!  It apparently attempted to access the URL but nothing appeared for quite a while, until I got an error message saying the server was too slow in responding.  I tried 5 times yesterday with the same non-result. 

This morning I tried yet again and got exactly the same non-result!  So in desperation I tried using IE8, and got in almost straight away!  Why didn't it work with FF25?  It MUST work in ALL browsers surely as I should be able to access that page from my Ubuntu Linux system that only uses Firefox and IE is not available for that platform, or is this yet another example of Microsoft trying to dictate what software people use? 

Anyway, I managed to change my password for safety - but still no other confirmation request messages and I can access all my Microsoft accounts with the new password without any other confirmation!!  That's surely not safe enough?  Especially in view of the fact that such a 'confirmation' notification had been sent but to the wrong email address! 

There seems to be something very odd happening that makes me very uncomfortable with the whole Microsoft Office, and especially hotmail.co.uk, systems and shows to me that Outlook.com is definitely NOT any safer than previous web-browser-based email systems and that your current advertising is at least misleading and maybe totally wrong and hence illegal in the UK.

Comment from the Outlook.com team please?