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Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. (mashable.com)

submitted 2 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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The point is not to help you control your own machine, the point is trying to force people to subscribe to their own machines.

[–] Plopp 5 points 2 months ago

That's exactly what it is and it's infuriating. I planned this rig, I bought the parts, I built it, get your god damned hands off of it, Microsoft. When I can muster up the energy you'll be forever doomed to a life in a KVM in Linux, you assholes.