I want a gamertag but it is taken by someone who has not been active

Or you can do what everyone else does and use the gamertag system.with a hashtag

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Based on this information, the gamertag should be free this upcoming August. However if the account is owned by someone who has since moved to pc and has linked their account to their browser when they log in there it should still count the account as active. There is nothing else that can be done about it.

i want to change my gamertag to right bumper but its taken by someone who doesnt even have gold

Its not taken by someone Microsoft support confirms its not taken. The gamertag has been this way 5 years. Almost 6.

The reason is when making a gamertag or changing to a gamertag. When you look for a gamertag for example try to add it as a friend and it will say " gamertag does not exist on xbox live " but when you try to change it says it's taken. The reason for this
as the user of the gamertag has went inactive for a long time it's years before this happens and it's when there email has not been active as well. But the gamertag itself is still on xbox live system archive for if the user with the username ever wants to
come back. The gamertag will come back to active. I hope this helps.