I tried putting the name on my Microsoft account as “FUCK MICROSOFT” but it said “Your name can’t include special characters.” changing it to “Fuck Microsoft” gave the same issue. Only when I made up a fake name did it accept it.
Not sure if this is a bug or if it blocks swear words. If anyone knows why it does this please leave a comment.
I guess it’s a polite way to block swear words without saying it’s blocked. Kinda confirmed by their acceptance of the last name Microsoft.
But we’ll never have the internal story.
Why not just say that sware words are blocked?
What about people who have swear words their their name like Dick, are they just supposed to change their legal name to get a microsoft account?
Dont most account sign up systems check if the username is valid and only then does it check the password.
i guess they have a swear word filter that replaces FUCK with F***, so it now has special characters…
I find Microsoft more offensive then “fuck”. I say fuck on a daily basis and no one blinks, but try to casually mention copilot vibe coding …