Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

Post by Tijdreiziger » Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 1:21 AM UTC

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I don't know about the specifics of Minecraft launcher, but usually these types of unified login schemes are all based on OAuth. The Minecraft launcher never/shouldn't get your actual login, and instead they get a scope-restricted oauth access/refresh token. So everyone is actually authenticating through the same secure interface, and even if one application's credentials get leaked, all they would give access to wou…

Do not make a second Microsoft account, it'll just end in frustration. Story: I have two Minecraft accounts (I used to do plugin work and it made testing easier to have an alt.). I migrated my main one to my MS account (one that's been in use with xbox and O365 for a decade+ at this point), no problem. I migrated the second one to a new account a few weeks back after they pushed that it'll be mandatory after 10th Mar…

Post by freeflight » Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 1:24 AM UTC

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The main problem with a MS account is if you have alot of documents and you log onto a new machine, you better have good internet speed otherwise you will be waiting hours for the documents to come down. Its not so noticeable with windows server (at least since server 2000) and workstations because office network speeds are good but if you also had exchange, then local copies of exchange mailboxes also tied up office…

Logging in with a MS account automatically uploads your documents to their cloud? Cool…

Post by snuxoll » Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 1:34 AM UTC

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>RDP'ing into a computer with your Microsoft account is easier Here is where it gets complicated, what you say is true for personal accounts and Hybrid Azure AD accounts, but it becomes super difficult with pure Azure AD accounts.

I haven't used pure Azure AD accounts from a management perspective before, and I've used it for less than a year as a user. However, I've yet to experience any sync issues personally. What kind of issues can crop up, and how?

Post by flatiron » Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 1:40 AM UTC

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You're not going to convince hardcore Office users (like me) that LibreOffice is good enough. I try it occasionally on my Linux laptop, and I have nothing good to say about it.

That's interesting, I have the opposite perspective. I'm not a power user in the sense that I use it to write documents, but at work we generate docx files from code (not a good idea) and a significant amount of the time we have perfectly fine files that render as we expect on LibreOffice but break unexpectedly on Word. Sometimes it even renders fine on the web version, but still incorrectly in Word itself. Edit: I s…

Post by temac » Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 1:43 AM UTC

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Linux really doesn't have good alternatives for most of the tools I use, and none of it runs in Wine and similar, so I hope not.

It’s hard to beat windows native office. MacOS version stinks and the web version is pretty slow on complicated stuff. That’s why I use windows on my work PC ans WSL for the dev stuff.