For years, if you are logged onto live.com, Microsoft has been redirecting google search results for msn.com, Technet, MSDN, etc through login.live.com.
1. Sometimes it doesn't work, and it's stalls on login.live.com.
2. When it does work, it tends to kill the browser back button, which gets stuck in a loop, keeping you on the same page. You have to drop down the history menu and select the search results page from it to get back.
3. There have been sites that use live.com and allow you to check a box to keep you logged in but don't respect your choice to stay logged in. MSDN was like this for a very long time.
4. If you had two Windows Live IDs, say, for MSDN and Zune, i.e. business vs. (attempted) pleasure, you could forget about staying logged onto both within the same browser, because it's one or the other at a time.
So with all this fail dating back several years, has Microsoft ever fixed anything? Of course not. Instead, they've double-downed on it by building it into Windows HE and insisting it's the best way to log in. So that makes five.
Oh well. I will continue to use Windows 7 and keep IE around solely for MSDN and other sites I still need that use the horrible Windows Live IDs. A single login was a bad idea in 1996 or thereabouts when it was called Passport, and it's only gotten worse with time as Microsoft has expanded the use of it. It's things like this that almost make me believe the Customer Contempt Policy is a real thing. I joke about it, but it's hard to explain things like this any other way. Or maybe my other joke about corporate dementia or psychosis is the right one here. It truly baffles me.
1. Sometimes it doesn't work, and it's stalls on login.live.com.
2. When it does work, it tends to kill the browser back button, which gets stuck in a loop, keeping you on the same page. You have to drop down the history menu and select the search results page from it to get back.
3. There have been sites that use live.com and allow you to check a box to keep you logged in but don't respect your choice to stay logged in. MSDN was like this for a very long time.
4. If you had two Windows Live IDs, say, for MSDN and Zune, i.e. business vs. (attempted) pleasure, you could forget about staying logged onto both within the same browser, because it's one or the other at a time.
So with all this fail dating back several years, has Microsoft ever fixed anything? Of course not. Instead, they've double-downed on it by building it into Windows HE and insisting it's the best way to log in. So that makes five.
Oh well. I will continue to use Windows 7 and keep IE around solely for MSDN and other sites I still need that use the horrible Windows Live IDs. A single login was a bad idea in 1996 or thereabouts when it was called Passport, and it's only gotten worse with time as Microsoft has expanded the use of it. It's things like this that almost make me believe the Customer Contempt Policy is a real thing. I joke about it, but it's hard to explain things like this any other way. Or maybe my other joke about corporate dementia or psychosis is the right one here. It truly baffles me.
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