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You can, of cause, create a Microsoft account that uses the same e-mail address that your Google Account is (e.g. xxx@gmail.com).
This is no more different that you can't use your Google Account to log on to Facebook (I think?).
Anyway, Edge needs a place to store the synchronized things (passwords, favorites etc.) and have chosen to do it in a Microsoft account.
ahl2ndc wrote:You can, of cause, create a Microsoft account that uses the same e-mail address that your Google Account is (e.g. xxx@gmail.com).
This is no more different that you can't use your Google Account to log on to Facebook (I think?).
Anyway, Edge needs a place to store the synchronized things (passwords, favorites etc.) and have chosen to do it in a Microsoft account.
Exactly.
Microsoft can put user data (favorites, passwords, credit card info etc) on a secure container and then allow users to unlock that container, using Microsoft account, in order to use that data on their Edge browser.
in addition to that, Microsoft can allow users to use other credentials than Microsoft accounts' to authenticate. such as a Facebook account.
it's what a lot of websites are already doing.
take IMDB website as an example. you can login using Facebook, Google, IMDB account itself and others. in a way that your IMDB account is connected to your Facebook account, so you need to specify it first and explicitly make the connection between your IMDB and Facebook account.
the same thing can happen with Microsoft account for Edge browser.
user can connect their Facebook account to their Microsoft account so then they can log in both using their Microsoft and Facebook account credentials.