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New user experience for consumer authentication

Robin Goldstein

Former Employee

Mar 26, 2025

Microsoft is rolling out a new sign in experience for over 1 billion end users. What we learn can help to improve sign-in for all Microsoft customers.

Hello friends, Today, I’m excited to share that we’re making authentication more modern, simple, and secure for over a billion Microsoft accounts. People around the world use Microsoft accounts to...

Updated Mar 26, 2025

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shommes

Copper Contributor

May 08, 2025

It turns out the deadline wasn't June or ajuly 2025, but May. Since May 1st, you can no longer create a secure Microsoft account that is accessible by password without jumping through a lot of unnecessary hoops. All they had to do was nothing, but instead Microsoft decided to ruin their entire ecosystem by destroying the login process.0