I made a typo in the email address I entered when I set up my microsoft account

Sign into the account using the incorrect email address and then click on the Account Aliases link.

There it tells you:

You can use multiple email addresses, like your personal and professional email, with your Microsoft account. Each of these is called an alias, and you can use any of them to sign in and to communicate with others through Microsoft services, like Outlook.com.

Your account's primary alias is displayed on your Microsoft devices (such as a Windows PC, Xbox, or Windows Phone), and you can choose a different alias to be the primary one at any time.

This should allow you to by-pass the error.

Also see: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/outlook/add-alias-account

When setting up the account it says that it sends information to the e-mail address that you gave to enable you set up the account.

However, as the typo is in the e-mail address obviously you don't get the set up e-mail.

There is a link to click on which says if you made a typo in the e-mail address click here, but that links to a page which says there is a temporary error on that page please try again later, but it has been like that for ages.

Anyone know what to do as I am stuck and can't download any aps or anything without the Microsoft account being set up.

That would be great if I could, but every time I try to download an ap it comes up with the same message asking me to look at the email that they sent me to continue with the account set up. However as I said because there was a typo in the email address I obviously can't access the email.

Again as I said before there is a link to follow if you have made a typo in the email address you gave to set up the account but this just goes to a page which says there is a temporary error with the page and come back later, but it has been like that for weeks.

All very very frustrating.

i hate to say it but Apple is much better at helping with things like this.

Ray