Fancy signing into Windows 10 with Office 365? WHOA there, my friend

Not thought through...

Microsoft's services these days show an alarming tendency to "fire first, aim later".

Reminds me of Commodore in the early 90s...

Excellent article

Thank you for your excellent article. I have been trying to understand the whole Office365/MSA/Azure sign-in process for some time now and always end up frustrated and bewildered. Your article has clarified a couple of things for me. I live in hope that Microsoft will clean up this mess.

250 character limit?

So someone at MS genuinely thought an 8 bit length field in 2015 was good programming practice??

Still, I suppose the 80s retro coding matches the hideous 80s retro GUI so at least they're consistent.

This is really not good enough...

.... MS need to sort this out PDQ. The sign in process in Win 8 already is a bit weird with ODFB and Office, and the confusing prompts for a Microsoft Account (aka my hotmail log in which is what it will be for a large number of people I suspect).

It doesn't seem that hard to design a sensible single sign on for Win 10, but that woudl require their product team, heaven forbid, from working together for once

Will 2015 be the year of the Windows desktop?

This has been going on for ages - the battle for who will be the single sign on in a Microsoft product - 365 or MSA.

Hardly unexpected though when you have 2 product teams working apart and eventually someone says - hey guys, we need cross product access.

Anybody else read the headline and see

AAD as Acquired Attention Deficit?

Another product of incompetence... (actually the images from "The Boob Tube" came to mind) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072723/

I remember when...

... circa 15 years ago, that installing and using a desktop linux distro was as painless as this experience. All MS need to do now is stuff up the ethernet drivers and I'll be able to fully reminisce about trying to use SuSE on an AMD K5 with a cheap network card.

It all depends which Data centre you are connected to when using the M$ cloud services.

Over here in HK it took nearly 4 months just to get 365 working and even now it is a pile of shit.

Don't even dream it works with anything other than M$ explorer.

The whole thing is designed to force you off any sort of 3rd party system and onto pure web based M$ email systems.

Cannot wait until all the M$ 'experts' are forced to use word & excel via a web browser, thought you could travel round China to your remote manufacturing plants and stay connected and use your office 365?

Well fuck you.

Boy is this windows 10 going to be a laugh once all these execs start traveling about the planet. Holidaying in the Philippines & Thailand is going to be taking a dive.... no wonder M$ is trying to setup a global wireless network.

Me so horny.... me M$ friend you, me network u, love you long long time....

Status update

All

Has the situation been resolved so that users and Join Azure AD and login to WIndows 10 with their office 365 credentials?

Daniel