In microsoft.public.money, Brad wrote:

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Thanks for posting that. What site were you blocking cookies to,
that you unblocked?

There are several queries about how to get online. Most went unresolved and
none answered my problem, which was that my updated would no longer work and
it kept saying that I was offline even though I keep signing in online!!!

The solution was that even though I did not check the box "work offline" and
got no error messages, it was not successful loging me into MS Passport
because my security settings blocked cookies from this site (not sure how
this happened). When I removed restrictions from this site, everything
worked fine again.