I suspect that some German speaking puritan indeed took offense to the “geil”
part. I also really like the suggestion of fake last name. I do it all the
time, for example when you have to register to take advantage of free wifi in
an airport or some such. So, for example, I recently registered as “Nathan
Smith” at some airport (do not remember which one). Now, when I receive spam
addressed to Nathan Smith, I know which crooks sell their data to the spammers.
Cheers,
Nathan
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> On 08 Aug 2016, at 17:02, Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for looking, Jim. I came across a blog where someone claimed to have
> the same problem. MS would not accept his surname of "Chicken". No one
> could come up with a satisfactory explanation but suggested the same work
> around.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Charlie,
>>
>> A web search didn't help much. Another Microsoft Account user had the
>> same response to a surname entry in 2013, and Microsoft's response seemed
>> to be a "run-around", with suggestions that never worked.
>>
>> Your solution of "choose another surname" seemed to be the best answer.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
>> On 8/8/2016 9:16 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings All,
>>> Had an odd experience this weekend and I hope someone here may be able
>>> to
>>> shed some light. On Saturday I purchased a new laptop PC for my daughter.
>>> It is a Dell Insperion with Windows 10. We set it up on Sunday. One of the
>>> first steps is it asks you to set up a Microsoft Account. I typed in my
>>> daughter's name, e-mail address and a password she selected. I clicked on
>>> the "Next" button only to get an error message, with her last name
>>> highlighted, stating the name cannot be accepted. I deleted and re-typed
>>> the name thinking I had accidentally inserted a space after the name. No
>>> luck, same error message. I checked to make sure the e-mail account has
>>> the
>>> same user name. Tried re-typing everything, same error message. In
>>> frustration I called Geek Squad at the store where purchased and explained
>>> the problem. They had never heard of such a thing.Then my wife remembered
>>> the same thing happened to her at work when they started using MS Office
>>> 365. She tried to register and it would not take her last name. The IT
>>> person where she works told her to just make up a last name and that did
>>> the trick. Finally I replaced my daughter's last name with her initial "G"
>>> and that was accepted. Set up went fine from that point.
>>> Has anyone else had this experience or have any clue what is so
>>> confounding to MS about my last name? My only thought is that my German
>>> last name contains the word "geil" which in German means sexy or mystical.
>>> Perhaps some AI at MS thought I was typing a bad word.
>>>
>>> Clueless Charlie
>>>
>>
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