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[–] 21 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

Microsoft's is even worse.

  1. Enter username
  2. Enter password
  3. Click "stay logged in"
  4. Click "log in"
  5. Login successful!
  6. Page reloads to the username prompt
  7. Repeat steps 1-6. Sometimes (but rarely) repeat them multiple times.
  8. Now you're actually logged in.

How hard is it to log in the user if the username and password were correct? If Microsoft can not figure out how to do this, why do other random websites work? Do those websites have some arcane knowledge being held away from Microsoft?

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  • [–] 9 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    Microsoft Login is genuinely one of the worst designed piece of software I have ever seen. It takes actual skill to login lol.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago

    Microsoft oauth login in a browser: type in password, get pop-up "reusing passwords is a security risk. Change password now?".

    I sure wonder why the password to my AD account is the same as the password to my windows account. It's almost like they're the exact same account or something.

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  • [–] 4 points 14 hours ago

    ... I was using 1password to store my passkey(s). On Thursday, it failed to login to Microsoft for work.

    "Your passkey is valid, but didn't meet the criteria set by your administrators."

    Screw this, I'm going back to passwords. At least I decide where/how to store this.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago

    Microsoft seem to have integrated XBox Live and microsoft.com (and others, like Minecraft) just enough that they all depend on each other, but not enough to know WTF is going on. Trying to get anything working seems to involve logging into everything and messing with similar but ineffective settings. And, each login to each system does the Azure URL dance.

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