Microsoft unwilling/unable to delete Live ID & Gamertag

A customer's perspective is my only perspective. That's all I am, myself. I hear you though, it seems like things like this should be easy enough. I'm just giving you the reasons I've come to understand myself. It would be nice if the phones simply had
a "disconnect from Microsoft Account" feature somewhere in the settings. If you're trying to let Microsoft know that you'd like this feature to be present on Windows Phone, I might recommend making a post in the Wishlist/Feedback forums, because that is a
good idea, and it should be made known by all those with Windows Phones who would like this feature.

Also, my reference to 3rd parties was regarding license ownership. Like when you buy a game from the marketplace that is licensed from a publisher other than Microsoft.

(Weird, it duplicated my post. Apologies.)

Oh, my mistake.

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I had assumed when he was on the phone, he was speaking with Microsoft.

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Never did the sign up on the phone.

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My apologies.

Something's seriously wrong here, with this information.

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First of all, setting up a Live email address does NOT set up a new gamertag. That's not accurate at all. YOU have to establish the connection between the Live account and your gamertag, and this can ONLY be done through either the Xbox console or the Smartglass
app.

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But don't worry. You can fix this. Do what Nokia says and restore your phone back to factory default. Save ONLY your music and photos, and be sure to list the apps you installed. DO NOT save any phone files.

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Once the phone has restarted, assign your account that is on your Xbox Live account NOW. This is your email address, so the association is already there. Once you verify the setup, you should have your gamertag of XDinoTheGreekX.

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As for the new Live email address, simply ignore it.

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By the way: you can also re-associate your existing Gamertag email address with the new Live email address, if you want.

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That's as best as I can do to assist. Good luck.

^^ Upon selecting 'Create New Live ID' on the phone boot up, it assigns you a personal Xbox Gamertag. For example, it assigned me 'Player1234567' or something to that effect. So a) I was not aware that I could not associate my real Gamertag with a new Live
ID. b) I figured worst case scenario, I could simply delete that Live ID off the phone..However it was not clear to me that this would only be possible through an entire phone reset. And some mentioned, hey, just back everything up. Well, guess where you're
told your back up is stored at? Yep. The Live ID you initially created So go figure. And as I now put on my tin foil hat, I will add that this is a clever way to stranglehold ppl into an email account, all while siphoning all of their personal data to
a 'secure' cloud storage. *Takes off tinfoil hat.. Gentlemen, I hope this has appeased your skepticism on this debacle. And not for nothing, at least Nokia concurred that it will be addressed that an email account cannot be removed without resetting the
phone. Then again, didn't Microsoft just buy Nokia? LOL.