how on the fucking earth are you the biggest company and have hands down the worst login imaginable. you know for a fact people have multiple accounts for your platform, it’s incredibly common to have a work specific micorosoft account after all. AND YET you lock in a specific email for login??? and you don’t even put a bloody “i’d like to log in with a different email”??? oh there’s a “use a different login method” button it’s all okay right? wrong that button still doesn’t let you change the login email! but now you can log in with a code sent to it :).
what if that “”“”“convenience”“”" you’re trying to give people by checks notes, not including an incredibly common button that takes you to the default login page without a specific email baked into it, is actually an impossible pain in the ass? what if that email is someone else’s and then just hit the “remember me” out of habit? go fuck yourself :). go into the browser setting and manually delete the cookies or if you can’t or don’t know how to do that then just fuck yourself :)
not to even fucking mention how if you try to log into teams desktop client app that info is going to get fucking applied to the entire windows account??? without asking about it clearly either it just fucking does that! it just fucking links to your local account instsntly
who asked for that microsoft? what deranged motherfucker in your board of directors came in high off his tits and uttered the cursed phrases needed for those feature to fucking exist?
and is that guy the only one allowed to speak? the only who’s vocabulary extends past “great idea! let’s do that”?
how is your user account management worse and more annoying than any virus i had?
i literally just needed to log in to someone’s account once, for an hour, to substitute for them in one call. and that silly little action has taken fucking hours to undo, and all done with force “how to delete someone else’s email from microsoft login”? delete your fucking cookies or team cache. “how to unlink a microsoft account from windows”? don’t forget to input your pc password! dw about how we didn’t ask for it when we just linked it to your local account, you need it now :) oh and unlinking isn’t removing, you gotta do that one too!
there has been genuinely nothing else in the past decade that has made me more frustrated, more fucking seething with anger, than dealing with the fallout of needing to use someone else’s microsoft account for an hour
Me: “Hi, I’d like to set up 2FA.”
MS: “Sure, you can use Microsoft Authenticator on Android.”
Me: “A separate app? (Grumble) Okay then.”
(A few years go by. I get asked to do 2FA absolutely zero times.)
Me: “…Damn, this 2FA settings page is hard to find. What happened to the app? It’s no longer in Google Play.”
MS: “What app?”
Me: “I believe it was called Microsoft Authenticator?”
MS: “Oh that app! It’s long obsolete. Don’t worry about it. You can now just use your favourite TOTP app.”
Me: “Sweet! Let’s set up Aegis.”
(Several years go by and Microsoft still hasn’t asked me to use 2FA for any fucking thing)
This is is why you should use incognito/InPrivate mode when using Microsoft sites. It will always give the full login prompt.
The real frustrating thing is when you have a personal account and a work account under the same email address… Separating those two is a massive pain.
well yeah now i know that, the maddening part is that with any other platform what i tried doing at first wouldn’t be an issue, log in, do the thing, log out, never think of it again. but nooooo, microsoft has to be special
I ended up using chrome and a bunch of profiles. My taskbar has now five different chrome icons, each with a different profile, all to keep the different systems and logins for the different clients separate.
This is how I got used to using different browser profiles. I’ll even open up a guest profile on a browser rather than just swap MS login for a few hours.
this is a rant about microsoft
how on the fucking earth are you the biggest company and have hands down the worst login imaginable. you know for a fact people have multiple accounts for your platform, it’s incredibly common to have a work specific micorosoft account after all. AND YET you lock in a specific email for login??? and you don’t even put a bloody “i’d like to log in with a different email”??? oh there’s a “use a different login method” button it’s all okay right? wrong that button still doesn’t let you change the login email! but now you can log in with a code sent to it :).
what if that “”“”“convenience”“”" you’re trying to give people by checks notes, not including an incredibly common button that takes you to the default login page without a specific email baked into it, is actually an impossible pain in the ass? what if that email is someone else’s and then just hit the “remember me” out of habit? go fuck yourself :). go into the browser setting and manually delete the cookies or if you can’t or don’t know how to do that then just fuck yourself :)
not to even fucking mention how if you try to log into teams desktop client app that info is going to get fucking applied to the entire windows account??? without asking about it clearly either it just fucking does that! it just fucking links to your local account instsntly
who asked for that microsoft? what deranged motherfucker in your board of directors came in high off his tits and uttered the cursed phrases needed for those feature to fucking exist?
and is that guy the only one allowed to speak? the only who’s vocabulary extends past “great idea! let’s do that”?
how is your user account management worse and more annoying than any virus i had?
i literally just needed to log in to someone’s account once, for an hour, to substitute for them in one call. and that silly little action has taken fucking hours to undo, and all done with force “how to delete someone else’s email from microsoft login”? delete your fucking cookies or team cache. “how to unlink a microsoft account from windows”? don’t forget to input your pc password! dw about how we didn’t ask for it when we just linked it to your local account, you need it now :) oh and unlinking isn’t removing, you gotta do that one too!
there has been genuinely nothing else in the past decade that has made me more frustrated, more fucking seething with anger, than dealing with the fallout of needing to use someone else’s microsoft account for an hour
My favourite part of Microsoft login experience:
Me: “Hi, I’d like to set up 2FA.”
MS: “Sure, you can use Microsoft Authenticator on Android.”
Me: “A separate app? (Grumble) Okay then.”
(A few years go by. I get asked to do 2FA absolutely zero times.)
Me: “…Damn, this 2FA settings page is hard to find. What happened to the app? It’s no longer in Google Play.”
MS: “What app?”
Me: “I believe it was called Microsoft Authenticator?”
MS: “Oh that app! It’s long obsolete. Don’t worry about it. You can now just use your favourite TOTP app.”
Me: “Sweet! Let’s set up Aegis.”
(Several years go by and Microsoft still hasn’t asked me to use 2FA for any fucking thing)
This makes me really value the effort I put into learning Linux.
Lucky for me I don’t need to use Windoze for work either.
This is is why you should use incognito/InPrivate mode when using Microsoft sites. It will always give the full login prompt.
The real frustrating thing is when you have a personal account and a work account under the same email address… Separating those two is a massive pain.
well yeah now i know that, the maddening part is that with any other platform what i tried doing at first wouldn’t be an issue, log in, do the thing, log out, never think of it again. but nooooo, microsoft has to be special
Yep. One of the many reasons why this lifelong Windows user is not going to 11.
I ended up using chrome and a bunch of profiles. My taskbar has now five different chrome icons, each with a different profile, all to keep the different systems and logins for the different clients separate.
This is how I got used to using different browser profiles. I’ll even open up a guest profile on a browser rather than just swap MS login for a few hours.