Hi Alex,
Thanks for the explanation.
I would like to add this - my comment was not only about UX on mobile devices, but rather about UX with various Microsoft portals. Plus, not only about login dialogs, but also about problems with SSO and multiple accounts in many of these portals.
This is a brief summary of my experience working with MS portals.
The best user experience (UX) is provided by the Azure Portal.
The Azure Portal has 3 very useful features that I think should be provided by any web portal. Look at the “SSO control” (my name, for the lack of better name) that is available in the top-right corner of the portal:
1). it shows me my current who-I-am info, including my email and Azure AD tenant name – very useful, help to avoid confusion when I am working with multiple Azure subscriptions.
2). it allows me to switch directory – as an admin and MSP, I am entitled to work with multiple tenants (normally about 20-30, about half-a-dozen per customer).
3). is allows me to sign in with a different account (any IT person has hundreds of accounts these days).
All 3 features are a must-to-have for any sysadmin, developer, MSP/CSP partner, or B2B partner.
Unfortunately, today only Azure Portal and MPN Partner Portal provide these features in a nice, convenient format.
Other portals, like Office, Dynamics, myapps, techcommunity, yammer, and many other MS portals, are ignoring one or two, or sometime all 3 of these features.
Some portals that have this "single account" mentality can be easily stack in "cannot login" SSO-enforced single account state and do not even suggest any means to recover.
I would like to suggest for all Microsoft portals to adopt a standard "current user" top-right corner control, which should expose all 3 features mentioned above (not unlike the one implemented in Azure Portal and MPN Partner Portal. Perhaps ask Azure team to share their implementation on GitHub, or something 😉).
Today you have a standard Azure AD Login dialog, so having a standard top-right corner SSO control would definitely be a step in the right direction.
As today, every portal has its own implementation of this control, often ignoring the user needs to see who he is and to switch between SSO accounts or directories.
Let me know if you like the idea, I would be happy to become your first beta tester for this new feature.
Hope this will help to make Microsoft web portals better.
Alexander Abalakov
CEO & Cloud Solutions Architect
Diagramics Software Corporation
Microsoft