Microsoft and Child accounts......again
So Microsoft still make this child account thing more difficult than it should be. Today I decided to try and set up child number three with his own MS account. I added him to family and this sent him an email with the contents: a@b.c would like you to join their family as a child.....Accept Invitation Clicking on the link resulted in a link to login to MS or create a new account. Clicking create new account resulted in a URL not found error. I then decided to just try and create his account via the normal MS create new account process (login.live.com). However I could get as far as creating his account and verifying his email address but this was invariably followed by: There's a temporary problem with the service. Googling showed that I'm not the first person to see this so it obviously isn't temporary - cannot-verify-microsoft-account-theres-a-temporary from 2017. My guess is that once you've invited a child via a link then trying to create the accout via