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New PC? Lost your Microsoft account password?

Posted on April 26, 2021 at 01:10 CDT by Ben Myers • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 18.15 • 2021-04-26

MICROSOFT

By Ben Myers

If your dog ate your Microsoft account credentials, Microsoft will welcome you to the tenth circle of hell.

You probably don’t want to hear this, because you’ve been nagged this way before; but make sure you have a safe record of your user credentials for every online account you maintain. Just do it.

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.15.0 (2021-04-26).
This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.15.F (2021-04-26).

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