If you are a user of Microsoft services, a feature which you might appreciate is the ability to perform a single sign-in and for this to automatically authenticate for other Microsoft products. An example of this is if you use your Microsoft account to log in to Windows 10, the UWP Skype app and the UWP Mail app will automatically authenticate your account and allow you to use these without having to log in each time.
This single sign-in also integrates with Edge browser allowing automatic sign-in on outlook.com with a single button click by pulling authentication details from your computer. The same can be done for accessing your Microsoft account through the account page, although security based actions such as changing default email address or password require you to re-enter your details.
The problem with this integration is that most users have a favorite browser that they prefer to use and often Edge isn't that browser. Microsoft knows this and has now introduced a Chrome extension called "Windows 10 Accounts" which allows this feature for organizations using Azure Active Directory and dealing with conditional access policies.
Hopefully, this is a precursor to a consumer orientated extension that allows the same sort of Microsoft account integration in Chrome as we currently get with Edge Browser.
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Craig Ward, 2017-08-17 (Update: 2017-08-17)