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Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. (mashable.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Well, Microsoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account.

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[โ€“] dual_sport_dork 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The irritating thing about all this is, at least if Raymond Chen is to be believed, the OS letting you do what you want without getting in your way was actually a/the core design philosophy of Windows up until probably the end of the XP era. It seems with Vista they started losing the plot, and by the time of Windows 8 Microsoft had fully committed to going completely off the rails.

[โ€“] iopq 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Honestly, Windows 7 was kind of good. It's the last Windows OS I could stand to use because it's the last one that was offline. You could do whatever you want and update whenever you want, there were no ads in the start menu or whatever