Add personal Gmail account to Microsoft account with work email

Quick side note:

a lot of people use gmail and other systems for their primary personal email. Perhaps there is also a microsoft email attached to this account that is recieving said emails. I personally use gmail but i also have a @live.com email i use on my xbox.

Hello Blazing,

Thanks for the replies and updates. In short you can change a Microsoft email to a Gmail, yahoo etc. The thing is, if that email is completely removed from the account. The Microsoft email is deleted. So lets say you use that email for work, you will no
longer have access to the Microsoft email. If you leave the email on the account as a secondary email it will not delete it. SO Basically you will add the Gmail yahoo email(not a Microsoft email) then once verified. You will set the third party email as primary.
It will move the Microsoft email to secondary.

Thanks,

Brad

Hi Robert,

The system won't let you add an alias that is already being used by another Microsoft account. In this case, you have two Microsoft accounts and you want your Gmail to be associated with your Xbox Live account and not the Outlook address. Since you cannot
transfer your Xbox Live profile from one account to another, you would first need to free up your Gmail from your other account, if you then want to add it as your primary alias for your Microsoft account which has the Xbox Live profile.

First, you need a create an alternate account to replace the Gmail on the Microsoft account using the email. Add the new email account as an alias and then you should be able to remove your Gmail as an alias from that account. Then, sign in with your Outlook
account at https://account.microsoft.com/profile/ and add your Gmail address, which should no longer be an alias on another Microsoft account because you replaced it with
the new email address you created. Once it is added, you can then make the Gmail as the primary sign in email and remove the Outlook if you wish to do so. Just keep in mind that this will permanently delete that Outlook email address.

I hope this helps! Let us know if you have any other questions.

You can't really merge two Microsoft Accounts.

If you haven't invested money in the Gmail-Microsoft Account, you could simply back up all your data (i.e. OneDrive, Skype contacts etc.), and delete your Gmail-Micorosoft Account.

After you have deleted that Microsoft Account, add the Gmail address as a sign in Alias to your existing Hotmail Account.

After adding the Gmail Address as a sign in alias, make this the primary sign in email, and restore your OneDrive files to that OneDrive, and add the Skype contacts to that account.

Quick side note:

a lot of people use gmail and other systems for their primary personal email. Perhaps there is also a microsoft email attached to this account that is recieving said emails. I personally use gmail but i also have a @live.com email i use on my xbox.

This is a good point.

I have checked all of our email accounts, including the hotmail/outlook accounts that I used to set up our xbox accounts ... still no emails.