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No More Option On Mac For Microsoft Account10/12/2021
Click Add User Account.Expand your Outlook. For User Account, click the dropdown to change the setting. Or check How to find my computer name. For PC Name, enter the name of the remote computer to connect to. Open the Microsoft Remote Desktop application. Mac OS X Remote Desktop Connection Instructions.Launching from the command line. Add VS Code to your Dock by right-clicking on the icon to bring up the context menu and choosing Options, Keep in Dock. Microsoft is testing your patience.Drag Visual Studio Code.app to the Applications folder, making it available in the macOS Launchpad. You haven’t been hacked and you don’t have a virus. A Microsoft 365 subscription offers an ad-free interface, custom domains, enhanced security options, the full desktop version of Office, and 1 If you get a notification that you have a “Microsoft account problem,” you don’t have a problem and you don’t have to fix anything.
Open the Downloads folder and run the OneDrive.pkg file. At the OneDrive For Mac section, click the Download button. The only suggestion I have left is to ignore it.)Sign in with your account if prompted. For some people – including on my own computers for the last few months – this notice still appears even after turning everything off. (Update 09/2020: Try the tips in this article but they may not work. I can’t explain that.)Trust me – you won’t miss “shared experiences.”The message reads: “ Microsoft account problem – We need to fix your Microsoft account (most likely your password changed). (Sometimes they keep popping up even after those switches have been turned off. That should turn off the notifications. Click on Start / Settings (the gear in the left column).Click on Shared Experiences in the left column.Turn off Nearby Sharing and Share across devices. When the new “Shared Experiences” setting first appeared in Windows 10 two years ago, there were two variations on similarly scary messages.Message 1: “ Microsoft Account – You need to fix your Microsoft Account for apps on your other devices to be able to launch apps and continue experiences on this device.”Message 2: “ Work or school account problem – We need to fix your work or school account before you can use shared experiences. You aren’t using it, you won’t use it, and it should be polite and shut up.This is not a new problem. More importantly: “Shared experiences” is an obscure, nearly useless Windows feature that should never call attention to itself. As a result, Microsoft is arguably the most successful tech company on the planet right now.But Microsoft can’t let go of its disappointment about being excluded from the mobile world. It is embracing open standards and has been avoiding the spotlight now being shone on other tech companies for privacy and antitrust issues. The result: embarrassing failure, layoffs, and huge write-downs.Microsoft still has its dominant place in computer operating systems and has brilliantly pivoted to enterprise services. Today, most people think Apple invented mobile computing.After fumbling and flailing for a few more years, Microsoft launched a new push to break into the iPhone/Android phone duopoly, redoubling its efforts to develop a phone operating system and spending billions to acquire Nokia and sell its own phones. It was so unsuccessful that when Apple introduced the iPhone, the world forgot about Microsoft’s mobile efforts. It wasn’t for lack of trying! Before 2007 Microsoft had made valiant efforts to develop handheld Windows devices. (The Your Phone app will go nowhere – some loyal users, roundly ignored by everyone else.)Shared Experiences is yet another halfhearted effort to create links between our devices. I don’t see anything coming up that will change that.) Microsoft is putting finishing touches on a new Windows app, Your Phone, which will sync your Android phone to your computer and be Fabulously Useful ™. That’s not a percentage, it’s the number of people worldwide using Edge. (Edge has a user base of forty-three. (OneDrive is doing pretty well.) Microsoft is retooling its Edge browser and will be touting its ability to sync your bookmarks and preferences to the Edge mobile app so that you can go back and forth between your computer and your phone. Since Microsoft doesn’t have its own mobile platform, the company risks becoming irrelevant to consumers unless they can be convinced to use Microsoft services to link their devices together.Thus the insistent push to store files in OneDrive, which with luck will lead you to use OneDrive and the Office apps on your phone. In any case, for the most part, Microsoft apps were not ready to support Shared Experiences, and third party developers showed no interest in supporting it.Today, two years later, I cannot find any evidence whatsoever that anything has changed. At best, it was only going to be relevant if we used Microsoft apps on our phone that matched the Microsoft programs on our computers – and we don’t. There is also the chance to “invite others to use apps with me,” whatever that means.The Shared Experiences feature was completely useless when it was introduced two years ago. In addition to syncing your place in an app, it has the potential to turn a mobile device into a remote control for, say, media playback on the computer. “Shared experiences” can be synced through the cloud as well as Bluetooth. Microsoft has had two years either to make this work smoothly or to get its feature to shut up.This story ends in precisely the same place it did two years ago:Microsoft showed you an unexplained error message instructing you to fix your Microsoft account, which wasn’t broken, for a feature that does nothing now and might never do anything interesting ever.I use a laptop and a PC simultaneously however only my browser is in sync. It looks like a feature begging to be abandoned.Which makes the error message all the more infuriating. I find zero evidence of any developer interest. If you click to ‘fix’ this non-existent problem the only option offered is to use ‘hello’.All this has achieved is I will not renew my Office 365 subscription next year. I have spent untold unpaid hours searching for a way to block itI remember when Yahoo had a service where people uploaded stuff and when Yahoo cancelled the service there was nowhere else for the stuff to go.Nothing is broken which needs fixing, no password relevant to Microsoft has been changed, however I think the reference to “password” is the clue.Possibly Microsoft wants windows users to sync their local computer log on password and their Microsoft account password so that when you boot up your device, you will also log into your Microsoft account.Added to this is the persistent blocking by Microsoft of features in its Office Suite trying to force me to change from a password to a PIN or something called ‘hello’. I do not need to use my Microsoft account to share anything however I also get this harassment every day when I boot up. I do not want or need one drive. My partner has a windows 10 laptop also.If I want to share between computers I use Bluetooth, upload and download using my website, use a USB stick, or email to myself. No More Option On For Microsoft Account Driver Problems WithSelect here to fix it in the Shared experiences settings.”Earlier, on December 30, 2018, I had installed Win 10 Home Version 1809 (32-bit version) because my so-called local computer expert had warned that I might face driver problems with the 64-bit version.I updated up my Win 10 32-bit installation up to Win 10 20H2.All these years, I never once got the above (or similar) notification.Finally, this January, I took the leap and did a fresh install of the Win 10 Home 20H2 (64-bit version).The installation went very smoothly, and I did not encounter any driver problems.But soon after the fresh installation, I began to get frequent notifications that I have mentioned above.The first time (when I had installed the 32-bit version), I had entered the Windows product key.The second time (in January 2021), I opted not to put in the Windows product key (as advised by some tech sites) and opted to activate using my Microsoft account.I have tried many of the solutions proposed above (and by the Microsoft site listed below), but to no avail.I wonder if the notification from Microsoft are related to the fact that I did not use the Windows product key and instead opted to activate my account with my Microsoft account.
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