You can skip Microsoft account login

Traditional desktop applications usually do not require users to log in. Today, modern applications need to sync a lot of data, which is not possible without user identity knowledge. This does not mean that the application needs to know exactly who you are in legal terms. It just needs to know which devices belong to the same user. When you read news on your cell phone, you do not want to read the same ones on your PC again. This is what a Microsoft account allows us to do. It provides us with a random anonymous number. After logging in on your new device, we know that you want to see the same content as on the device assigned the same number.

A Microsoft account has absolutely nothing to do with banking or money (unless you want to buy an application). The account itself is totally free and strongly secured. You always have control over what kind of information associated with your Microsoft account you provide to the application. Feed Viewer requires the lowest possible knowledge; we really care only about the anonymous number. However, many users do not understand Microsoft’s strict privacy policy and do not want to log in for various reasons. To meet their needs, Feed Viewer now allows skipping the Microsoft account login. On the other hand, this is a challenge from the security perspective of our cloud service and the reason why this was not allowed from the beginning.