MicrosoftWorthless advice from the beginning to the end - as expected from a community that insists on appearing as a public forum of discusssion by people who are least tolerant of public opinion.
I don't think any of the people here are working for Microsoft. You are exactly who you reveal yourself to be - the ones lobbying publicly under guise of public discussion for the kind of useless features that purports to protect consumers, with a clear intent for Microsoft to adopt these ideas into its business - maybe you do this to other tech companies too, I dunno - but your goal is so that your interests, both foreign, state and commercial can get a part to play.
You weren't even interested in defending Microsoft - you just wanted to make sure you got your last word in that passwordless is totally secure, like just repeating it will work.
You are right that it is not just a Microsoft thing - however, since only Microsoft is the key party running this site and having these wonderful blogs about the topic as if it is a thing to celebrate, calling for comments - why would I not reply here? And my comment stands - it is a dumb thing to assume that it is higher security for Microsoft - it is a dumb thing for any corporation, but those corporations don't have a public tech community discussing this.
I'm only interested in what Microsoft may feel about it. My concern is the businesses that make the things I use have to waste their time and resources catering to regulatory authorities and various governments who won't just come right out and negotiate commercially at least openly on the public table but insists on using us end-consumers as the excuse for its numerous initiatives, treaties, symposiums, summits to discuss some grave social issue like AI, Tech intelligence, data privacy, cookies.
Find your own excuse, stop making use of the broad term of consumers and individuals. I don't care for public intervention in my consumer choices, I don't care for your fake excuses and your numerous legal acts that birth and spawn derivatives of its own irrelevance for years down the line.
You ran a public forum - am I the first to leave a comment that isn't complimentary of this? Then its about time someone said it. I responded precisely because I feel very strongly about this and since you opened the floor - might as well make my thoughts known to let Microsoft and others know I am an end-user who don't care for these useless features - that I believe MS is more or less getting strongarmed into introducing them so as facilitate the entry of other parties into the storyline later on.
You have EU purporting to be worried about data privacy and introducing some Digital Act that now requires Microsoft to have a popup window reminding users whether they want to sign-on with same credentials? Anyone thinking straight can see how redundant this is - EU is worried about the rights of its European dwellers not being able to figure out sign-on credentials on their own, despite having a computer and surfing online themselves and therefore its grand result of its concern is basically a pop up window to nag them about this? If they could decide this for themselves with just your reminder, they could have done so without. EU's participation is unwanted - nobody asked for it - it just wanted in.
The blatantly irrelevant issues raised on behalf of consumers and frankly, the hint of bribery and corruption behind such industry practices are disgusting to see, especially when you dare to parade this publicly as if it is a perfectly logical & good thing.
The last people I would bother with would be those very members of the alliance you mention because they are the origin of this - why would I care to persuade to change their mind - they are free to super alliance fido dido, that's not my concern.
You do what you do - if you want an open feud on your own fake forum, let's go then. I don't care what EU or UN or your individual countries get to profit from this, whether this is business norm, industry practice or even if nobody, not even Microsoft is particularly inconvenienced by these sort of business hurdles - that's for you lot to sleep at night.
If I don't like it, I'm gonna say it - and you are the one running a public form so if you can't take real public opinion, you should not open it to the public but you can't - precisely because the public opinion is the one you actually have to win so that EU, other governments and the likes of its kind doesn't look like its butting its nose into things where nobody asked for it to be.
