My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 5:06 PM UTC

berniedurfee wrote: post #326

gchadwick wrote: post #26

Auth with MS accounts is a giant mess. When I was a city councillor I had a corporate O365 account from the council (used for council email and virtual meetings over teams) and simply trying to sign out of the thing or switch to another account was always fraught (I've got a personal account that's basically just to associate my windows license with and a work account used for azure access). You'd often end up in a s…

It’s not just MS, auth is a mess everywhere. Everyone wants to own your identity and we’ve ended up with an insane web of trust. The many standards around identity management makes the web more complex. Most of us have many identities and we end up with a multidimensional web of tokens and cookies. I think at some point something will have to give. This seems like a space where some more provider consolidation or col…

Post by remram » Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 5:22 PM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #53

I'm assuming "deletion of your data" only includes any information that might be associated with the school... hopefully not the rest of my Microsoft account! Whenever I see such a serious warning, I will almost always take a long period of consideration before proceeding. Remember that you're dealing with a company which acts like they believe you shouldn't own your computer. If a company with that attitude believes…

Post by philliphaydon » Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 5:23 PM UTC

synecdoche wrote: post #323

philliphaydon wrote: post #99

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Sure. But every OS has its flaws. They are all good and bad in their own way.

This statement says next to nothing but may give the impression that it does to anyone who doesn't think twice on what it actually says. OS X and OS Y both have their good and bad sides but not necessarily near similar in terms of features and execution. It's not an argument not should it be used as such.

Post by nazgulsenpai » Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 5:29 PM UTC

trinsic2 wrote: post #370

flakeoil wrote: post #158

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I have the same issue with "finish setting up your device". I don't understand how this can be legal. In the early 2000 MS got fined for bundling IE as default, but I seriously think they have even more evil patterns now baked into Windows and all it's entangling into 365 etc.

I was thinking the same thing. I heard somewhere that nobody wants to prosecute Microsoft now because their systems are so tied into our our financial and political infrastructure that nobody wants to rock the boat. I also heard that Microsoft uses this as leverage against business that want to speak out against the dark patterns and deceptive practices Microsoft is involved in. "The New Goliaths: How Corporations Us…

Post by tenebrisalietum » Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 5:32 PM UTC

gchadwick wrote: post #26

Auth with MS accounts is a giant mess. When I was a city councillor I had a corporate O365 account from the council (used for council email and virtual meetings over teams) and simply trying to sign out of the thing or switch to another account was always fraught (I've got a personal account that's basically just to associate my windows license with and a work account used for azure access). You'd often end up in a s…