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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Portable ' phone: I forget but it is quite some years ago. I changed it when my first 'phone failed.
Only two years after I'd replaced its battery, water penetrated the case and irrepairably destroyed the display, ending some twelve or fifteen years of good service.
Though the change was only through ignorance. I did not know you could carry the number forwards.
Land-line 'phone: When I moved house some twelve years ago, hence a new number anyway.
Microsoft has my telephone numbers and occasionally sends an e-mail asking if they are is up-to-date. No they are not. They are the old ones; but MS gives no method for up-dating them, nor for contacting the company generally. Or if it does give those, they are very well hidden.
Customers being able to contact suppliers for help? The very idea! I am not sure why MS wants my telephone numbers anyway.
Only two years after I'd replaced its battery, water penetrated the case and irrepairably destroyed the display, ending some twelve or fifteen years of good service.
Though the change was only through ignorance. I did not know you could carry the number forwards.
Land-line 'phone: When I moved house some twelve years ago, hence a new number anyway.
Microsoft has my telephone numbers and occasionally sends an e-mail asking if they are is up-to-date. No they are not. They are the old ones; but MS gives no method for up-dating them, nor for contacting the company generally. Or if it does give those, they are very well hidden.
Customers being able to contact suppliers for help? The very idea! I am not sure why MS wants my telephone numbers anyway.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@ArishMell they likely want it for two factor authentication. Pretty much all the big OS developers want that type of authentication. Google Apple and MS being the big ones.