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On the upside, when Windows 10 is no longer supported I run out of reasons not to go back to Windows 7 like I always wanted.
When Windowds 10 is EOL you may want to look into acquiring a legal version of Windows 10 LTSC (or whatever they decide to call it at that point).
I feel like I see this exact article every year or two and then it always comes out that you can easily get around this with some type of easy loophole. Of course that might still get the majority of people switching to an online account but..... if you are practically giving away an OS for free is that really so bad? Not that I am saying I support this change personally of course - I would much rather have microsoft…
Buying LTSC licenses as an individual is not particularly easy or cheap.
I'd like to thank Microsoft. Their constant bloating and nagging and hostility has finally convinced me to move to Mint and it's been just great. I don't think I'd have done it without their help, but now I'm glad I did and wish I'd done so earlier.
I feel like I see this exact article every year or two and then it always comes out that you can easily get around this with some type of easy loophole. Of course that might still get the majority of people switching to an online account but..... if you are practically giving away an OS for free is that really so bad? Not that I am saying I support this change personally of course - I would much rather have microsoft…
On the upside, when Windows 10 is no longer supported I run out of reasons not to go back to Windows 7 like I always wanted.
Here's one: Linux is better. A lot better. If you are worried about gaming or other apps, Win7 won't be much better than Linux (won't have latest DirectX or anything), and may end up far worse by then.
My hypervisor OS is a Linux Mint install, with Virtualbox. I use Mint as a daily driver. I also use Cloudready[0] for interacting with the Google ecosystem. I can't recommend Cloudready enough, although I think Google bought out[1] Cloudready and it's now called Flex[2]
[0] https://www.neverware.com/freedownload
[1] https://cloudreadykb.neverware.com/s/article/Neverware-is-no...
[2] https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/products/chromebooks/chro...
I feel like I see this exact article every year or two and then it always comes out that you can easily get around this with some type of easy loophole. Of course that might still get the majority of people switching to an online account but..... if you are practically giving away an OS for free is that really so bad? Not that I am saying I support this change personally of course - I would much rather have microsoft…
The loophole for years has been not being connected to the internet, they're getting rid of that. Buying LTSC licenses as an individual is not particularly easy or cheap.
I believe you can still choose the domain join option during install and still create a local account
So how would that work for people who only work in offline networks?
It appears they don't care about those people. Windows is not the product. If you are not consuming their cloud product AND providing a stream of your telemetry data for them to monetize, you are of no value to MS and so invisible.