First question: Why is this such a difficult problem to find a simple solution for, or even a discussion about? Is 30 minutes of googling and searching on Microsoft support not enough?

For future searchers hopefully this will be easily found...


The issue (which I assume is very common): Is there any way to be logged in to one account at say @Outlook.com and log in to a different microsoft account like say @hotmail.com simultaneously on the same computer?

I ran into this problem when I tried out Google's Gmail and they had a work around for just this very issue. Surely Microsoft has figured this one out and is willing to assume the grave risk of allowing such usage for the sake of increased productivity worldwide. After dealing with Gmail's mess of an email system I have resorted back to using good ol' Microsoft for this particular account. I have been a long time hotmail account daily user as my primary personal email for probably 12+ years now and I enjoy it's organization. But when I went to the trouble of building a new outlook.com account for my other business I went to send a test email from my hotmail account and it automatically logged me out, even though it was on a different browser window. Then the obligatory google search for a discussion and fix on the matter ensued, and now 45 minutes later I'm going through the trouble of registering with the "community" and writing this post in hopes that I'll find the easy solution.

Please excuse the cynicism and sarcasm.

Thanks for any insight.

Jeremy A