Why doesn't Microsoft default to the 4 character Pin

[zhenya]

If you entered options once, i don't know- out of curiosity for example, pin isn't hard to configure + windows lets you choose after what time it requires password to wake. Just saying... It's not that this option is concealed and you have to edit registry to access it. I have picture password set for time whens I'm on the go and need to switch back and forth from smartphone to tablet, as I find it even more convenient than Pin.

Group policies are often set to require the password after short time periods, or any time the device resumes from sleep, which with the Surface, is any time the screen goes off. I used the picture password for a while, but found that anything that had any kind of complexity to it, I was unable to replicate reliably.