Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

Re:Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft accou... by viggity on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:31PM (#14159430)

Microsoft's accounts are just managed horribly in general. I've got two microsoft accounts for work and one for personal. The personal one I separate out by having a different chrome profile. However, for work, I have to wrestle with the login screen for about 6 iterations everytime I want a new tab. I use one MS account for azure, another for office 365. Regardless of which one I enter/select, it always prompts me for the password for the other account. Drives me effing nuts. Plus that whol "is this a business account or a personal account" selection. jesus. so frustrating.

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Re:Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft accou... by DrPhish on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:46PM (#14159579)

That drives me insane as well. I expect it is nessecary in some fashion, but the implementation is severely frustrating. It should be "sticky" and allow you to switch if required. Also the personal accounts can only have 16 character max passwords, so my normal wetware password generation algorithms don't work

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Re:Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft accou... by hpshelton on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:12PM (#14161381)

When was the last time you tried to change your password? Long password support has been live for a long time.

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Re:Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft accou... by douche on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:53PM (#14159661)

You've basically got to commit to using different browsers for different accounts.

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Re:Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft accou... by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:02PM (#14160308)

Or chrome profiles.

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