Moments before, I’s trying to link my Windows 8 user account with my Microsoft Account. Everything went smooth until I entered my Hotmail email address. To my surprise when I type-in my email address, a double-quotes (“) comes in place of at-the-rate (@). What? Are you serious?
Oh, ya! That’s because my default language preference was some how set to English (United Kingdom). I changed it to English (United States). That solved the problem.
You can change your language preference from Control Panel –> Clock, Language and Region –> Language. A screenshot below
Hoo! Thanks.