I migrated my account from mojang to microsoft. The OLD launcher works as expected. The new one however just spins the "waiting" animation when I click the "Microsoft Login" button, I see a brief flash of the panel to enter credentials but is gone instantly (no it is not in the background). What I have tried:
-Making sure it is not blocked by Firewalls
-Making sure the login dialog is in the background somewhere.
-Unistalling the old launcher
-Reinstalling the new launcher (and rebooting several times).
-Closing all other apps
-Looking in the event viewer for errors (no errors or warnings).
I eventually uninstalled it the new launcher and reverted back to old launcher (which worked instantly).
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"I eventually uninstalled it the new launcher and reverted back to old launcher (which worked instantly)."
How did you do that? Mojang customer service chat gave me a link to reinstall the old launcher and Minecraft but as soon as it installs it does the launcher upgrade without prompting to the Microsoft one and breaks everything.
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Lon - I used: https://launcher.mojang.com/download/MinecraftInstaller.msi
It did not auto update for me.
Thanks! Before you responded I nosed around Mojang's website and found the Windows 7/8 installer download and luckily that doesn't automatically update so I can at least play Minecraft once again.
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