That is wonderful advice and I’m glad you pointed that out. :)

If I knew how to give directions to the page, I would, but unfortunately I don’t know the Microsoft site layout, only the URL that their help center directed to.

In mitigation of my indiscretion: it’s generally safer to trust a person you approach out of nowhere than to trust someone who approaches you out of nowhere.
Since they chose the venue and asked the question, the likelihood that an attacker is present in the replies is lower than the expectation that an unsolicited email is from an attacker.

But it’s also entirely correct to be distrustful of anything anyone asks you to click on, triply so if it involves security or login pages.