Hi,
You're right it's indeed encoded using Base64 encoding. If you look in the database password is of nvarchar type which is designed to store unicode characters while hash algorithms are working with byte arrays. My guess is MS decided to encode it to avoid any problems when storing and transferring hashed password. If you would decode password you would get hash byte array not plain password.
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