If they compromise, guess, steal, your PIN, then they still need access to the machine itself. If someone compromises your Microsoft account password, they can log into your Windows 10 computer from anywhere. That PIN is useless to anyone without that specific hardware." It's a second factor, in other words, the first being physical access to the Windows 10 device itself.
A point that Microsoft itself drives home in a 2017 posting: "The PIN is tied to the specific device on which it was set up.
Forget the idea that a four-digit PIN has to be less secure than a 25-character password, as that is missing the point.
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