Yesterday I signed my daughter up for her own minecraft account. It was maybe the worst computing experience I've ever had thanks to the Microsoft accounts. Made her a microsoft account with accurate 'kid' age, could not buy anything. Made myself a parent account, added her as a kid, still couldn't buy anything.. went to her account, added credit card, couldn't buy anything. 2 hours later of following tutorials around giving her enough "xbox / windows 10" permissions and eventually just disabling "request before making purchases" I was able to buy minecraft for her. Repeat the process (tutorials, guides to the microsoft preferences maze, jumping between accounts) to figure out how to let her join a local multiplayer game.

Anyways, it was quite the insight into the level dysfunction that can ship when a company is that big, and I'm sure somewhere a manager is defending every step of that process and that it's my fault for not understanding it. Wild.