Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
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Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
#2they also force you to give a recovery account. i’m thinking microsoft’s hands are tied in this matter, it might be the government forcing a kyc strategy
Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
#3If only Windows users fully understood why M/S wants you to create an account, people would leave en-masse.
The ID along with their telemetry, M/S can map you to what you do and from where. That pretty much makes their builtin disk encryption useless.
Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
#4It does make me wonder why people keep running this OS...
Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
#5they also force you to give a recovery account. i’m thinking microsoft’s hands are tied in this matter, it might be the government forcing a kyc strategy
"KYC" simply for operating your own PC?
Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
#6> "To avoid the next problem: 'Microsoft locked my data behind bitlocker, and now I can't get it back.' they need to store that key on the MS account."
Doesn't that make the account requirement even more scary? So now if MS decides for some reason to lock my account, this will make even the data I have on my local disks inaccessible as well?
Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
#7It does make me wonder why people keep running this OS...
Because they feel (rightly or wrongly) there is no viable alternative. It might be that they have software which requires Windows, it might be that they think it's too complicated to set up Linux, or it might just be that they aren't aware any other option exists. But those all boil down to the same thing: people think they have to use Windows, so they tolerate its nonsense.
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#8That's a long article ridden with ads just to say "a redditor complains about shitty Windows OOBE requiring a Microsoft account (this has been the case for 10 years already)". Alternatives exists and are viable, now people still prefer pouring energy into complaining to a wall instead of actually moving. Getting abused is deserved at this point, it's been more than 10 years now, get a grip.
Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
#9> "To avoid the next problem: 'Microsoft locked my data behind bitlocker, and now I can't get it back.' they need to store that key on the MS account." Doesn't that make the account requirement even more scary? So now if MS decides for some reason to lock my account, this will make even the data I have on my local disks inaccessible as well?
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