• Microsoft account login

    From Robert Baer@robertbaer@localnet.com to alt.computer on Sun Jan 16 17:27:24 2022
    Until yesterday, i had to log in, then i got Outlook with on left
    side a typical email menu, then a column in middle with list of emails,
    then one selected email; exactly like i want the presentation to be.

    Now, i do not have to log in, and the left column has icons: envelope
    icon (mail), then one selected email), calendar icon (calendar), people
    icon (people), paper clip icon (files), checkmark icon (to do), and 3 horizontal dot icon (gives square whitespace that is non-functonal);
    middle with list of emails, then right column with one selected email.

    How in the heck do i change the presentation back?

    Thanks.

    (PS: i like that auto login bit)
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.computer on Mon Jan 17 03:06:07 2022
    On 1/16/2022 8:27 PM, Robert Baer wrote:
      Until yesterday, i had to log in, then i got Outlook with on left side a typical email menu, then a column in middle with list of emails, then one selected email; exactly like i want the presentation to be.

      Now, i do not have to log in, and the left column has icons: envelope icon (mail), then one selected email), calendar icon (calendar), people icon (people), paper clip icon (files), checkmark icon (to do), and 3 horizontal dot icon (gives square whitespace that is non-functonal); middle with list of emails, then right column with one selected email.

      How in the heck do i change the presentation back?

        Thanks.

    (PS: i like that auto login bit)

    Do you think the OS version has changed, or
    just the version of your unstated email tool ?

    Microsoft Account Login implies many things.

    Note that the gmail.com interface (in Firefox as webmail)
    has changed, it seems to use a cookie for authentication, and
    I don't know how long the cookie lasts, before you have to type
    your password again in that case. The gmail changes may have
    inspired Microsoft to copy them

    winver.exe # tells you the OS version

    File Explorer on C: and look for the existence of
    Windows.old, tells you whether the OS was upgraded
    recently (swacked). The generally don't gratuitously
    change OS versions on you, but there has been one report
    where a user swears they did not touch an interface offering
    to upgrade the OS, and it upgraded anyway.

    You're painting us a picture in your post, of a "something happened",
    but you haven't given enough detail to say where we are:

    1) Windows 10 Mail application (terrible!)
    2) MSO and Outlook <versionnumber> for mail
    3) Doing webmail in Firefox.

    Paul
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  • From Robert Baer@robertbaer@localnet.com to alt.computer on Tue Jan 18 21:41:35 2022
    Paul wrote:
    On 1/16/2022 8:27 PM, Robert Baer wrote:
       Until yesterday, i had to log in, then i got Outlook with on left
    side a typical email menu, then a column in middle with list of
    emails, then one selected email; exactly like i want the presentation
    to be.

       Now, i do not have to log in, and the left column has icons:
    envelope icon (mail), then one selected email), calendar icon
    (calendar), people icon (people), paper clip icon (files), checkmark
    icon (to do), and 3 horizontal dot icon (gives square whitespace that
    is non-functonal); middle with list of emails, then right column with
    one selected email.

       How in the heck do i change the presentation back?

         Thanks.

    (PS: i like that auto login bit)

    Do you think the OS version has changed, or
    just the version of your unstated email tool ?

    Microsoft Account Login implies many things.

    Note that the gmail.com interface  (in Firefox as webmail)
    has changed, it seems to use a cookie for authentication, and
    I don't know how long the cookie lasts, before you have to type
    your password again in that case. The gmail changes may have
    inspired Microsoft to copy them

    winver.exe      # tells you the OS version

    File Explorer on C: and look for the existence of
    Windows.old, tells you whether the OS was upgraded
    recently (swacked). The generally don't gratuitously
    change OS versions on you, but there has been one report
    where a user swears they did not touch an interface offering
    to upgrade the OS, and it upgraded anyway.

    You're painting us a picture in your post, of a "something happened",
    but you haven't given enough detail to say where we are:

    1) Windows 10 Mail application (terrible!)
    * No.
    I do not use Win 10. Using Win 7 SP1.

    2) MSO and Outlook <versionnumber> for mail
    * I am using online version of Microsoft 365 Office
    (Outlook).

    3) Doing webmail in Firefox.
    * No.
    Login URL is (split by NG program): https://sso.godaddy.com/?app=o365&realm=pass&username=info@codatronreg.com


       Paul





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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.computer on Wed Jan 19 03:51:06 2022
    On 1/19/2022 12:41 AM, Robert Baer wrote:
    Paul wrote:
    On 1/16/2022 8:27 PM, Robert Baer wrote:
       Until yesterday, i had to log in, then i got Outlook with on left side a typical email menu, then a column in middle with list of emails, then one selected email; exactly like i want the presentation to be.

       Now, i do not have to log in, and the left column has icons: envelope icon (mail), then one selected email), calendar icon (calendar), people icon (people), paper clip icon (files), checkmark icon (to do), and 3 horizontal dot icon (gives square whitespace that is non-functonal); middle with list of emails, then right column with one selected email.

       How in the heck do i change the presentation back?

         Thanks.

    (PS: i like that auto login bit)

    1) Windows 10 Mail application (terrible!)
    * No.
      I do not use Win 10. Using Win 7 SP1.

    2) MSO and Outlook <versionnumber> for mail
    * I am using online version of Microsoft 365 Office
    (Outlook).

    3) Doing webmail in Firefox.
    * No.
      Login URL is (split by NG program): https://sso.godaddy.com/?app=o365&realm=pass&username=

    After putzing around a bit, it might be this.

    https://office.live.com/start/Outlook.aspx?ui=en-US&rs=US

    Which looks like this. It looks like I've had this account
    since 2015 and did not know I had it. Clever.

    [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/v8KTxm3x/outlook-live-com-webmail.gif

    Paul



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  • From Robert Baer@robertbaer@localnet.com to alt.computer on Tue Feb 22 20:09:54 2022
    Robert Baer wrote:
      Until yesterday, i had to log in, then i got Outlook with on left
    side a typical email menu, then a column in middle with list of emails,
    then one selected email; exactly like i want the presentation to be.

      Now, i do not have to log in, and the left column has icons: envelope icon (mail), then one selected email), calendar icon (calendar), people
    icon (people), paper clip icon (files), checkmark icon (to do), and 3 horizontal dot icon (gives square whitespace that is non-functonal);
    middle with list of emails, then right column with one selected email.

      How in the heck do i change the presentation back?

        Thanks.

    (PS: i like that auto login bit)
    I discovered how to login to Microsoft.com directly, instead of using sso.godaddy.com › login.

    Password manager does not work in that aspect.

    Thanks, R. Baer
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