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Brian,

This announcement comes as a shock to all of us in the IT community. Your insight will be missed by many of us who have followed your writings over the years. Hoping your future days are long and many. You are to be congratulated for the staff you have put in place to carry forward providing and discussing Windows Secrets.

Should you find the need to edit or correct some spelling in the days ahead please feel free to stop by here

Thanks for all the years of dedication to writing about the things we needed to know.

Woody, There are times when quality national journalism such as yours overshadows all the blogging and feedback ever created and put into print!

Having read with interest and followed this thread from the start, please know I agree with you completely concerning the Windows Live Suite of services and the social networking aspect. The average consumer user would not be aware of the complexities. From beta days until today, over three years now it has been a test case. Adding, modifying, exposing various forms of data. It continues as we speak to a degree, however your publicity may have influenced some of the changes implemented recently.

Please be aware Microsoft has chosen to modify the settings factor for the sevices. The link I will provide you to a blog post by my friend,Technogran, explains well the function of the above mentioned settings that were just released. Link: http://windowslive.com/Connect/Post/0c29605b-8fed-4b7f-9a9d-3cabcd6aa470 This information supplements all the guidance Greg has so patiently shared. Sorry to cut this short but must run and remove my home phone number from my profile page.

Read with interest and pat yourself and Brian on the back for your part in bringing about the changes.

Edited to add this from Network World:
Seethis!

Woody,

To thank you for exposing what many of us in the IT Security field have said for several years, social networking will be the destructive force to bring down the internet.

You have requested more information at the end of your post.
Here is a safe link to the Windows Blog propoganda : http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowslive/archive/2010/04/02/privacy-is-not-dead.aspx

Should you wish to end the agony of your personal data being exposed as many are after making the many permissions adjustments you may wish to read carefully this method to close out your WL account.

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For security reasons, only Windows Live Hotmail account owners can close their own accounts.

Follow these steps to close your account:

1. Visit http://mail.live.com/mail/CloseAccountConfirmation.aspx

2. Sign in using your Windows Live Hotmail account and password.

3. Click “Close account” button.

This will only close the e-mail service, the Windows Live ID that is associated with your account will remain active and will be deleted after 365 days of inactivity. If you would like to access any of our Windows Live ID services, please use a different account.