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You'd think that could never happen at a company like Microsoft (or maybe you would), but you'd be surprised. Maybe is running on an ancient Windows 2000 server and they've forgotten the admin password. A Microsoft account does not need a Microsoft email The email address used to sign into your Microsoft account can be from, , Gmail, Yahoo, or other providers. The longer you work in technology, the more you see systems get larger and larger and have their own rational for things that seem insane to an outsider. Maybe it was actually a coordinated effort to avoid all that, or simply meet a deadline. If I had to guess, the team that made probably could have dealt with the group that "owns" and gone through all the security, functionality, routing and systems testing involved to add a new subdomain or root-level path, but it was faster, easier and safer to just use a new domain and not worry about 25 years of domain name baggage. In a giant org like Microsoft, services are launched by different groups at different times, and not always (or better said, rarely) in a coordinated manner.
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In addition to what others said about cookies and security, there's also organizational issues as well.
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