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Microsoft’s are the only services I use where I regularly have to delete all cookies because Teams or something gets stuck in a strange redirection loop that do
by codeflo 5y ago
Microsoft’s are the only services I use where I regularly have to delete all cookies because Teams or something gets stuck in a strange redirection loop that doesn’t happen in clean browser instances. Good times.
I think Microsoft is also responsible for an (at the time a bit embarrassing) account breach I suffered. I have no proof, but something very weird happened.
Way back when, I think my Skype account was hacked using a password that no longer should have existed. This happened some time after the forced migration to Microsoft accounts. The new password was unique and password manager-generated, and no machine of mine was ever compromised — luckily.
However, my old Skype password had been embarrassingly weak (different times), and I had only upgraded everything to strong passwords a short time before that. I remember that there was no user-visible way to change the old Skype password or even see the account anymore — I thought it was deleted during the migration.
Yet someone managed to spam all my contacts, some of which got very angry with me personally. My best guess is that they had accidentally exposed an API backend that still used the old account database. Again, I don’t really know and can’t prove it. There were hints in forums of other users with that problem, but never any official answer.
My actual point is, Microsoft isn’t that great at all of this. Whenever they buy something and force migrate all accounts, the user experience gets worse.
I have no idea why so many enterprise IT departments have such a strong preference for their stuff. It’s not like any of it is particularly easy to set up.
- robertlagrant 5y agoI think there is a genuine affinity for GUIs in a lot of IT departments. If there's no GUI then it's completely alien. Others - like me - get worried when there are GUIs. So OS manufacturers can't win!
- PascLeRasc 5y agoThe suffering is the point. Microsoft depends on you being unable to find joy in computing.