
But the password for your Microsoft account will be different than the password for an external account. Microsoft even lets you sign up for a Microsoft account using external email addresses-like your Gmail address. Note that because changes over the years, you might have used any Microsoft-related email account as your Microsoft account. Type your Microsoft username, and then click the “Next” button. In your web browser, head to the Microsoft Account page, and then click “Sign In” in the top right corner.

If you’ve forgotten the password for your Microsoft account-which might be an account at, ,, or even -you can’t really recover that same password, but it’s easy enough to recover your account by resetting your password to something new.

If you don’t use a password manager, those complex passwords can be hard to remember.
