Outlook.com never signs out?

[Nilus]

Hi,

I switched to Outlook.com when it became available and have to say for the most part i've been really impressed.

Apart from the fact my account NEVER times out. I can go back to outlook.com after any period of it having been closed or even from another machine that I have previously signed in from and it just automatically signs in. Not just caches the credentials and I have to click login but I go to outlook.com and it fully signs into my account.

I have not had to log into the site from my home or work machines for ages?! Surely this is a massive security hole. Why does the site not time your session out?

I can't find a way to get help from Microsoft on this, does anyone know if I am missing a setting somewhere that lets me set my account to time out rather than just automatically log in from any machine i've logged in at least once from?

If I can't sort this I will have to switch to a more secure provider :/ thanks

[cork1958]

So, click on the freaking logout button, like you're supposed to anyway!

[Torolol]

or kill the cookies

[Nilus]

So, click on the freaking logout button, like you're supposed to anyway!

Yes that's all well and good but you don't always remember in a rush to hit logout. Thats what timeouts were invented for, I don't know, perhaps 20 years ago.

Its a standard thing other websites have been getting right for years...

[primexx]

uhh.... if you have it save your credentials it'll save them for 30 days at least