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What I can’t understand is why Azure AD doesn’t have a stronger position in the consumer space. Authentication via Google, Apple, and even still Facebook are nearly always supported on customer-facing logins. I rarely see an option for Microsoft. They have a commanding position in the enterprise. What’s keeping them from crossing those enterprise boundaries?
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NetIQ eDirectory tends to be the other big one. Although I am seeing a rise in companies not having an SSO solution recently at all. In fact some of the SMEs I've seen recently are running most of their stuff entirely via basic Microsoft O365 accounts or iCloud.
A lot of startups or smaller companies I've worked with are entirely on the Google stack (gmail, google drive). I imagine there's a scale when that option breaks, but I think it'd be fine until 50-100 employees.
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Really? So you really think companies shouldn’t be able to sell software that works together bundled together? Why stop there? Phones and computers shouldn’t be “bundled” with operating systems? Computers shouldn’t be “bundled” with sound hardware? Where does it stop?
Bundling is fine. Bundling by a company that is a monopoly in the space is (or rather, used to be) a violation of antitrust law. But see Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox, especially sections IIA and IIIB: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
Disney is by far the largest entertainment conglomerate. Should they not be allowed to bundle Hulu, Disney and ESPN?
Intel has over 80% of the PC market, how much hardware should they be able to bundle on their motherboard?
And HN has a habit of calling any big company a “monopoly”. Amazon only has 56% share of e-commerce and a tiny share of all commerce in the US
But getting back to MS Office, I have three “office suites” right now on my phone - all three made by companies worth 1 trillion dollars - Google, Microsoft, and Apple.
There is no “monopoly” in the IDP space.
This is assuming the domain has it, but it's even easier actually - you can just DIG DNS records and see if what they run as MX, cnames, etc, if there is teams DNS records and the MX record points to *.onmicrosoft.com or $tenantname.mail.protection.outlook.com there you go, even easier than "querying" google and seeing what's index. And much easier to script too. ;)
So Okta (their main conpetitor) uses Azure AD https://login.microsoftonline.com/okta.com/.well-known/openi...
Microsoft is traditionally great at bundling their products. This is reminiscent of bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Could an Okta have a claim against Microsoft similar to Netscape in the late 90's?
I know next to nothing about AD, but my company appears to match against this merely because we have an Office 365 account (from which we do nothing except download Word and Excel every now and then) so it doesn't necessarily mean you're using whatever it is much.
All 365 accounts get created in AAD. And your user has access to the portal even. https://aad.portal.azure.com/
What I can’t understand is why Azure AD doesn’t have a stronger position in the consumer space. Authentication via Google, Apple, and even still Facebook are nearly always supported on customer-facing logins. I rarely see an option for Microsoft. They have a commanding position in the enterprise. What’s keeping them from crossing those enterprise boundaries?
Only very recently Windows started requiring a MS account. I'd guess most people who don't own a Xbox don't have a MS account.