Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
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Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#2Literally a trap to hand over your encryption keys. Never sign into an operating system with a cloud identity.
You should have stopped using windows years ago. There is no excuse, especially thanks to Valve for their work enhancing wine ecosystem and making your games work.
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#3This is terrible. Folks need to be able to install Windows on offline devices for maintainence...
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#4Microsoft is still kicking themselves that they didn’t think about making internet access a subscription service until the XBox, this will be the first step toward making windows a subscription service, since at this point they can’t do it just for the internet.
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#5Literally a trap to hand over your encryption keys. Never sign into an operating system with a cloud identity. You should have stopped using windows years ago. There is no excuse, especially thanks to Valve for their work enhancing wine ecosystem and making your games work.
Games may have gotten better on Linux, but that’s not the case with some programs. Usually riddled with obnoxious DRM that throws a fit in a VM or wine like program. That and nvidia woes are the only thing stopping me from using Linux.
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#6I believe you can still choose the domain join option during install and still create a local account
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#7So how would that work for people who only work in offline networks?
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#8So how would that work for people who only work in offline networks?
They will force it, probably. I think for enterprise edition, they will allow it.
Also, guys be ready to make your phone number ready because Microsoft seems to require it. They have successfully impinged their tentacles on people's privacy.
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#9Microsoft is still kicking themselves that they didn’t think about making internet access a subscription service until the XBox, this will be the first step toward making windows a subscription service, since at this point they can’t do it just for the internet.
Have you ever heard of MSN?
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#10Yikes, I don't like that at all.
These days I only use windows for games, otherwise I'm mostly mac or linux.
I guess I should learn how to develop unity games on linux sooner rather than later.