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Re:Hello, GitHub by megaman22 on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:09PM (#17231074)
Microsoft accounts are a trainwreck... I've got at least three or four of them all with the same email address, and despite years of effort to link them together and consolidate, I still have to use all of them to log into different services and access different resources. The permissioning on things like Azure and VSTS doesn't make a lick of sense.
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Re:Hello, GitHub by dcow on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:54PM (#17231634)
I began the process of creating an Azure account recently and somehow the Canada region was selected. The system locked my email address into Canada even though I already have a US region live account with the same email address. Since I don't have a Canadian zip code, I can't submit billing information and complete the provisioning process. I was willing to try Azure for a new project, but now I'm not because their accounts are such a mess. I talked with a project support technician for Azure who actually understood the issue but was unable to resolve it suggestion I use a different email address. I know I could, but on principle I won't.

I'm actually really excited about MS+GitHub, but have to agree the account situation sucks.

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Re:Hello, GitHub by reitanqild on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:35PM (#17231408)
Google kind of managed to force most accounts together. ;-)

In the process it seems they managed to seriously undermine their new, really really nice social network by using the same name for that and now me and a few others have a nice social network all to ourselves :-\

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Re:Hello, GitHub by raarts on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:01AM (#17234887)
> Microsoft accounts are a train wreck.

Now you put it like this, I realize I suffer from this too. The UX of having accounts in the Microsoft ecosystem sucks severely.

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