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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2026
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Automated time-capsule emails: Once you finally sort out standard TOTP, Microsoft sends you an automated setup email enthusiastically asking if you need help configuring your Zune, BlackBerry, or Office 2010.
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Everything about authentication and Microsoft is nightmare fuel. I am sure that noone over there has any idea what is going on, and that is the reason why every new thing from microsoft builds their own - soon to be legacy code anyway - authentication portal and ties it to the existing kowloon walled city of authentication with chewing gum and zip ties.
My MS account is doing a thing lately where I have to enter the TOTP twice to login successfuly. It has to be two different TOTPs, too, can't enter the same one; I have to literally wait until the first one expires and get another one.
Didn't experience any of the other shenanigans described in the article though, so there's that.