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Select a default profile to open external links in
99.99% of the programs available on Windows won't be using it because signing into Microsoft account is available mostly for Microsoft products (Microsoft UWP apps, Office package etc).
it won't support any other Email program, any Adobe programs, Autocad programs, Discord, Steam etc.
HotCakeX Perhaps, but I and many other users use Microsoft products more than 0.01% of the time. I open links from Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint multiple times a day.
It's an interesting larger problem. Multi-user operating systems were a Big Thing when they came out all those years ago, but now we have users who have distinct identities but whose workflow is shattered every time they have to log out and login.
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USMA56795 wrote:HotCakeX Perhaps, but I and many other users use Microsoft products more than 0.01% of the time. I open links from Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint multiple times a day.
It's an interesting larger problem. Multi-user operating systems were a Big Thing when they came out all those years ago, but now we have users who have distinct identities but whose workflow is shattered every time they have to log out and login.
That's what Single Sign On (SSO) is for
HotCakeX If every identity provider trusted every other identity provider that would be great: federate and away we go. Unfortunately, people who work across organizations often have separate identities managed in each of those organizations.
mailto:chris@contoso.com and mailto:chris@whatever.com are the same person, but Chris serves both companies, and they aren't federated.
- Yeah wishful thinking 🙂