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by kintamanimatt 4754 days ago
That seems like a very odd system but a good way to snoop and see who is logging on to a particular computer at a particular location. I can't imagine how this would benefit the user experience one little bit though.

What happens if you've lost internet access? (Internet outages happen!) Can you no longer log in to Windows?
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kryten 4754 days ago
It's unified authentication and automatic synchronization between all devices.

If you have no Internet access (as per no domain access on Windows), it uses cached credentials.

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kintamanimatt 4754 days ago
That's a bit more of a reasonable explanation.

It seems convenient on the surface but I can think of many ways it's a really, really bad idea: third party snooping, the possibility of being locked out of your own computer if your Microsoft account is deleted/deactivated/password changed, possible expiration of cached credentials (and therefore inability to log in) during a protracted period of internet unavailability, etc

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kryten 4754 days ago
ALL of those are possible and have occurred to that class of account so you've hit the nail on the head there.
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