>> I don't know about you, but a PIN is pretty much a password in my book.
> Then your book is filled with misunderstandings of what the PIN function in Windows is actually doing.
The "PIN function in Windows" doesn't define what a PIN is. If Microsoft really meant the "PIN function in Windows" specifically, they should have said so in their blog post. Otherwise, in this context, PIN means this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number.
> but a PIN is pretty much ___a password___ in my book.
> Once I figured out that I can use ___a password with Windows___, I stopped using __my PIN__.
Context clues. Read the whole comment. Pretty much immediately after they start talking about PINs and how they're pretty much just passwords, they go to talk about using passwords instead of PINs in Windows. Each sentence isn't its own entirely separate universe devoid of any context of the previous words and sentences.
What PIN do you think they stopped using immediately after referencing their Windows password? Think they stopped using their bank card PIN because they figured out how to go back to full Windows passwords?
So no, they're not speaking generally about all PINs, they're specifically referencing it in the context of Windows accounts.
the way a PIN works in other contexts is the same concept as what microsoft means.
Your PIN for your bank card doesn't give anybody access to your bankaccount. that would be terrible. your pin acts as a secondary level of authentication to secure the bank card that is your primary authenticator. just like a PIN in windows hello acts to secure your primary auth method - the computer that's already signed in to your microsoft account.
> Then your book is filled with misunderstandings of what the PIN function in Windows is actually doing.
The "PIN function in Windows" doesn't define what a PIN is. If Microsoft really meant the "PIN function in Windows" specifically, they should have said so in their blog post. Otherwise, in this context, PIN means this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number.