I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC - ExtremeTech

Windows 11 Home will now require both internet access and a Microsoft account in order to set up the PC. Nope.

extremetech.com/computing/3241

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@r000t There was a way to prevent setting up online MS account when installing Windows by not having internet on setup. What will happen if people do the same on setting up Windows 11? Is there hope?

@nikolal
I'll find out when I throw it on QEMU. I can't imagine they wouldn't have *some* way to do that for airgapped machines and for government/compliance reasons,

My big fear is that eventually, the only way to not use a Microsoft account will be through unattended installation/WDS/WISM and some obscure answer document stanza.

It also appears to only be a limitation of the home edition.

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