Microsoft "stay signed in?" screen is the most useless thing ever programmed by man
At work I see that screen at least 5 times a day.
I honestly don't understand the point of it. At every single job I have or have had, it doesn't seem to do anything and I still have to sign in multiple times a day.
+1. I'm very confused and don't understand what it's supposed to do.
At my work, we were told that the cyber security people don't want us to say logged in, so they just ignore it if you say yes. Why it bothers to ask at all in that case, I do not know
There’s also a ”don’t ask again” checkbox, which is mostly there for aesthetic purposes I think.
I wish I could just turn it off because clearly it doesn’t respect my choice.
In a work environment I can only assume they just leave that box in the flow but the actual session duration limit is set by your IT policy.
What annoys me endlessly that i have to interact with the system so much to log in multiple times for various platforms:
People are saying passkeys are not a good solution, but I would take those immediately over this nonsense
“Programmed by man”? But didnt they say Microsoft was 30% AI code or something like that.
This was programmed long before AI coding was a thing.
Finally got motivated enough to change the lock screen from other peoples photography to my own. Spend an hour going through shots and make a folder under 'Pictures' root folder called 'Lock screen', go to the settings for lock screen and select that folder as the slideshow source. "We can't use that folder so it was removed". Hmmm. Ok, let me add it to 'Documents' instead. Same issue. Hmmm, ok.... I hate it, but let me move it under c: - ok, it accepted it, sweet. Lock the screen, not showing anything... Hmmm ok, google it. Apparently it fails silently when it needs permissions. Hmmm, Ok... workaround is to select 'Photo' mode instead of slideshow mode, lock the screen. Ok, shows the photo. Ok, now go back to slideshow mode and it should work.
Wrong place for this rant I know but windows just seems progressively shittier over the years, if that's even possible.
windows ~~just seems~~ is progressively shittier over the years
The design is very human. All you need to do is close all tabs where a Microsoft service is potentially running, find all the cookies used by Microsoft's domains (there are only like six of them) and delete them, then restart the browser.
And when they doesn't work, install a fresh copy of Windows on new hardware in a sperate location within another dimension.
"Microsoft works fine. All you need to do is..."
Why can't people try Linux again?
It's a joke.
So was mine.
I actually recently added the Microsoft logout page to µblocks domain filter at work, since it would every now and then trigger a logout the very first page load after I'd log in to the email there.
This has also somehow caused a bunch of other AD-connected systems to suddenly behave a lot better when it comes to session termination.
Edit: Since people were asking for it, this is what you need to add to the "My filters" tab in your UBO config;
||login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/logout^$document
This will prevent any requests from redirecting you to log out, timeouts etc will still invalidate your session.
So, how do you do that exactly?
LPT
Oh wow. So you just added the /logout endpoint itself or something else?
Oh, do share.
Added an edit with the filter line
WTAF. I was sceptical, but I've been using this all week and haven't once had the issue in the OP. Whereas previously I had to log in 2-3 times back to back every morning.
Any idea why this works?
What is it with Microsoft and not being able to manage something as simple as a session? Why are sessions so majorly over complicated that singing in is one of those fun things that can take half an hour?
Fuck everything about incompetent evil Microsoft
The only company that hasn't yet managed to build a successful sign-in.
This
Once I had our Outlook Web at work get stuck in a redirect loop until I went into the MSFT admin panel and gave the affected accounts a extra permission they never needed before.
Fucking Redirect Loop. They're so dogshit at this it loops back to being funny.
I've reached redirect loops on all Microsoft accounts I've had at school or work... Apparently a very common problem that's existed for years.
Reminds me of the w10->w11 upgrade in one of my former jobs.
For most of the upgrade process, there was the common Windows blue screen. In the foreground, a big fat clickable 'OK' button, and right underneath, the phrase 'Your upgrade is underway. Do NOT press OK!'
at least they didn't put the recompute base encryption hash key next to it
😂
I have now a bunch of browser profiles to keep each login separate. The joys of having one Microsoft account, linked to multiple systems, but none of them want to run in the same browser profile at the same time.
Get the container extension for Firefox. It's far superior to using multiple profiles.
can't, firefox is not a supported browser for my company shitty SSO
Good god. I’m so sorry.
the joy of not having any microsoft accounts.
although i still do have to deal with this shit every day for other people. the 'best' ones are those with only a voice number on their account for a verification, from back before they went sms-only for phone numbers.
Do you think Microsoft understands consent?
[ ] - Yes
[ ] - Ask again later
my morning work routine includes cursing out microsoft
don't get me started how bad outlook is in ff despite using about 1gb of ram
Don't get me started how bad outlook is, period. I don't get it, it fails so hard at just being an email client.
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