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Great but this still exists in outlook online, Amazon, and probably other places. If Microsoft is really serious about this, they would get rid of password expiration everywhere. It actually leads to less secure passwords as combined with their shitty ui and multiple password change systems, each with its own password rules (another stupidity that needs to die), it leads one to ignore the password generator and manager and just use a simple password that can be remembered and changed by one number when it expires. This way I'm not updating multiple clients constantly and can actually change the password on the first try. I'm glad such insecure and stupid practices are finally going away.


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