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The Day AppGet Died (2020)

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Re: The Day AppGet Died (2020)

#131

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>But there's no reason this requires separate authentication technology or infrastructure. Only if you are Microsoft replacing working login system with a new one costs zero. But as a user you have no reason to change and many reasons not to do it, especially if you experienced already issues from the Skype account migration issue and you seen the news where giants ban your account for shitty reasons , so now I might…

I don't really care, but I can only imagine that your opinion of what is "beautiful" doesn't carry much weight with the folks that have to build and maintain this shit.

It's a shame the people you say are working to maintain the infrastructure are so disconnected from the users that they are satisfied with it being, to quote, "shit."

Re: The Day AppGet Died (2020)

#132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>But there's no reason this requires separate authentication technology or infrastructure. Only if you are Microsoft replacing working login system with a new one costs zero. But as a user you have no reason to change and many reasons not to do it, especially if you experienced already issues from the Skype account migration issue and you seen the news where giants ban your account for shitty reasons , so now I might…

I don't really care, but I can only imagine that your opinion of what is "beautiful" doesn't carry much weight with the folks that have to build and maintain this shit.

The shit is already built, they need a system admin to keep it running. If those devs were smart enough they could do this transition transparently , you could continue login with your email/password but for some reason management wants this, this is someone project , instead of creating something new and good they move shit around.
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