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Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

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Re: Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

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Post by mhuffman »

HeatrayEnjoyer wrote: post #19
technion wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been saying the writing was on the wall for a long time. Any time someone says how easy it is to simply avoid MS account registration I've argued that it's not going to last much longer. Even Microsoft's current Storage Spaces Direct won't let you start a locally hosted Hyper-V VM without an Azure connection.

What if there's an outage or somewhere you don't have reliable internet?

>Fuck people that live in very rural areas!

-Microsoft, apparently

Re: Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

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Post by mythz »

All these user hostile behavior finally tipped me over the edge last year after I started to get Windows 10 EOL popups. No way I was going to "upgrade" to a ad/spyware/subscription ridden MS marketing platform and be constantly nagged at to try out more of their services.

Moved to a Fedora Desktop, liberating to move back to an conflict-free OS whose primary focus is to serve its users, imagine that.

Re: Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

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Post by BrenBarn »

chii wrote: post #9
userbinator wrote: post #2

"Challenge accepted." Much like with the TPM "requirement" and the others, I don't expect this one to stay undefeated for long.

the true victory is to move to linux. unfortunately, that's been harder than it needed to be, and it's mostly due to inertia of old software and network effect of windows.

I've made the switch, but there are still occasional things for which I need to boot into a Windows VM.

Re: Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

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Post by mhuffman »

miles wrote: post #3

> "We're removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11." .·°՞(˃ ᗜ ˂)՞°·.

>security and user experience

This is corporate speak for advertisements and telemetry

Re: Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

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Post by technion »

HeatrayEnjoyer wrote: post #19
technion wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been saying the writing was on the wall for a long time. Any time someone says how easy it is to simply avoid MS account registration I've argued that it's not going to last much longer. Even Microsoft's current Storage Spaces Direct won't let you start a locally hosted Hyper-V VM without an Azure connection.

What if there's an outage or somewhere you don't have reliable internet?

If you're running Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct/AzHCI and there's no internet for an extended period you can't start on premise servers.

Re: Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

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Post by Springtime »

mhuffman wrote: post #21
HeatrayEnjoyer wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if there's an outage or somewhere you don't have reliable internet?

>Fuck people that live in very rural areas! -Microsoft, apparently

Reminds me back at the Xbox One launch where notoriously an employee arrogantly said that always online DRM is fine and defended it when pressed by saying why would anyone want to live in an area with unreliable internet. He left Microsoft after the backlash.

Re: Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

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Post by brokegrammer »

A while ago, I needed to get into safe mode to rescue a laptop that wouldn't boot.

Since it uses Windows 11, I originally logged in using my Microsoft Account and a Windows Hello pin.

Safe mode doesn't load wifi drivers and the laptop didn't have an ethernet port, so I couldn't log in to my Microsoft Account to get into Windows safe mode. Didn't have a dongle with ethernet port at that time, so I had to backup the drive and reinstall Windows instead.

That's why I use Linux these days.

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