Cannot create a new Microsoft account and email

[James Feazell]

I am trying to create a brand-new Microsoft account and email address. I am going to account.microsoft.com and then opting to "Sign Up", and then choose to "Get a new address". My only options to are to choose from either the "outlook.com" or "hotmail.com" domains (which I found kind of interesting, as I thought that hotmail had been deprecated). Anyway, no matter which domain I choose, and no matter what I put in for an email address, it says that the address is not available. I have scoured the forums for answers to this and have found nothing of relevance. I have tried using an private brow

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