Autofill disabled on new Microsoft login page. ANNOYING!!!

For those of us who still prefer IE11 my workaround is to remember the password → go to Internet Options, Content, Autocomplete settings. Make sure 'Ask me before saving passwords' is checked. You can always uncheck it later to avoid the annoying pop-up on other sites that require passwords. The next time you sign in, it will prompt to remember your user id and password. If you are concerned about security issues, don't type in your real password. I left out the first two characters of my password. So now whenever I go to the sign-in page, my user id and fake password are already pre-filled. All I have to do is type in the first two characters of my password and hit Enter. This is actually less effort than when I had to type in the first letter of my user id, select the dropdown autocomplete and then type in my entire password! This workaround should probably be adaptable to Firefox too.

Wonderful I just received the following from a Microsoft escalation analyst:

"

Service Request 1340880450

Hi ,

This is Stephane again with Global Escalation Support. I hope your day is going well.

I am sending you this email to inform you that I received a response from the development team with information that unfortunately we cannot disclose details about the decision at this point there are no plans to re-enable auto complete. I know that you have been waiting for sometimes however note that the auto-complete will not be re-enable at this point. I am sorry for the inconvenient.

I have decided to provide you with three months of Microsoft Groove subscription for the great patience and understanding so that you can continue to enjoy the service.

{removed}

I really thank you again for the patience and understanding.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Sincerely,

Stephane T

Escalation Analyst

Global Escalation Support

© 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved

"

What TOTAL bs.. :(

Why would they delete it? You didn't mention the CEO's name. By the way, my workaround on IE11 is to set it on auto login. So it remembers the password too. Except I omitted the 1st two characters of my password, so I type it in, that way there is still some security.

Marty,

I posted this reply earlier, but someone deleted it!!!!!

First:  No one from Microsoft (with the authority to fix this problem) reads these forums. I suggest you use the following steps to report this to someone in Microsoft ...

1. Go to this page:  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/id-support
2. Click on "I am having trouble signing in"
3. A page will open where you can describe the problem signing in (i.e., auto-complete not working when typing the first few characters of your ID into the new Microsoft Account sign in page).
4. Click the Submit button.

You will get email with a case number. Then you may get email with a scripted reply telling you to enable auto-complete in your browser. Verify that auto-complete is working in your browser by signing on to other sites you use (such as netflix, gmail, facebook, etc and typing the first few characters of your ID). Then respond to the email you received and tell them that auto-complete works on other sites ... it just does not work on the new Microsoft Account sign in page. Be persistent and eventually your case will get escalated to a higher level.

Second: The fix for this problem is simple .... all Microsoft has to do is change the "autocomplete" attribute (in the Sign On Page's HTML) from "off" to "on". Unfortunately, Microsoft refuses to make this simple change (and refuses to explain why they disabled auto-complete in the first place).

If you use Firefox as your browser, and have installed the free Greasemonkey add-on (that allows user scripts to be run in Firefox), then install the following script which will fix the problem:

// ==UserScript==

// @author         langware

// @version        1.0.0

// @name           Enable auto-complete in MS Sign-on page

// @include        https://login.live.com/\*

// @date           May 9, 2016

// @run-at         document-idle

// @grant          none

// ==/UserScript==

var elmLink = document.getElementById("i0281");

if (elmLink != null)

    {

    elmLink.removeAttribute("autocomplete");

    }