My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
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My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
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Re: My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
#2I can already see a bunch of managers aggressively giving orders to implement account organizations while deflecting all questions from the ones implementing it.
Re: My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
#3Microsoft's organisation vs use of accounts is certainly a hot mess.. I'll be watching responses here and hopefully find out why my personal account sometimes says certain settings are managed by "my organisation".
What freaking organisation is always my response; I've never been able to figure it out.
Re: My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
#4Large corporations with a captive market inevitably reach the digital bureaucracy stage, where the exaggerated mass of their workforce breaks under its own weight, and they become inept at doing basic things.
This is a great thing for small startups, else we would only have a single huge corporate conglomerate doing everything with cutthroat efficiency.
Re: My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
#5The way Microsoft accounts work is almost completely opaque to users.
I’ve been in similar scenarios — the switch directory or switch organisation technique usually worked for me - but wasn’t enough for this person.
They never really give you enough information to tell what’s going on… maybe it’s a security risk to have consumers who are anything other than bewildered Kafkerian characters struggling against a faceless bureaucracy? I suppose we should not question their wisdom and be thankful that we can log in at all.
Atlassian manage to make it even more confusing than Microsoft. So there’s that.
Re: My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
#6With the mess that is Microsoft accounts system, I'm not surprised to hear this.
Re: My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
#7My rule of thumb is to NEVER use a Microsoft account for anything unless I’m forced to. And then I’ll create a brand new account for each use case.
I so regret converting my Minecraft account. The old Mojang stuff was so much more reliable.
Re: My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
#8The way Microsoft accounts work is almost completely opaque to users. I’ve been in similar scenarios — the switch directory or switch organisation technique usually worked for me - but wasn’t enough for this person. They never really give you enough information to tell what’s going on… maybe it’s a security risk to have consumers who are anything other than bewildered Kafkerian characters struggling against a faceles…
Now, if Microsoft bought Atlassian — that would be absolute theoretical maximum limit of peak confusion when logging into an app.
“Warning: You are about to login to Microsoft Atlassian Fogbugz Trello. Have you cleared sufficient space in your calendar, notified your next of kin, put your affairs in order, and taken your sedatives?”
Re: My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
#9Is this a surprise? I assumed everyone's experience of Microsoft accounts was something like this. Every single detail seems designed by someone who read Kafka and took the wrong lesson out of it.
Re: My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
#10My rule of thumb is to NEVER use a Microsoft account for anything unless I’m forced to. And then I’ll create a brand new account for each use case. I so regret converting my Minecraft account. The old Mojang stuff was so much more reliable.
You didn't have a choice, right?