<story><title>Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m definitely not one of those people who thinks Windows should stay frozen forever as Windows XP, I appreciate we&amp;#x27;re finally getting 15-20 year old features like search filtering in the task manager.&lt;p&gt;But whoever&amp;#x27;s bonus metric is tricking people to sign in with MS accounts is really making it a gross experience. I managed to finally get my new machines install on a local account using &amp;quot;OOBE\BYPASSNRO&amp;quot; although none of the instructions I found online worked for some reason, eventually found the script find myself. Then when trying to eventually register Windows it tricked me into converting to a MS account because the license troubleshooter forces you to login to do anything.&lt;p&gt;Next time I boot my machine its asking for my MS password instead of my local password... So that&amp;#x27;s taught me to never enter my MS account into anything on the desktop because there is a risk it will silently do that.&lt;p&gt;You have a &amp;quot;Home&amp;quot; and a &amp;quot;Pro&amp;quot; version, really just wish for a world where they do this silly scammy behavior in the Home version and let the Pro version just be an actual tool to use hardware. I&amp;#x27;m not using Windows because it&amp;#x27;s a great operating system I&amp;#x27;m only using it because it&amp;#x27;s the only OS in the Venn diagram of &amp;quot;Supports Nvidia GPUs&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Runs Adobe CC&amp;quot;, can&amp;#x27;t they just be happy I use it at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nullabillity</author><text>&amp;gt; You have a &amp;quot;Home&amp;quot; and a &amp;quot;Pro&amp;quot; version, really just wish for a world where they do this silly scammy behavior in the Home version and let the Pro version just be an actual tool to use hardware.&lt;p&gt;This &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s fine if they scam &lt;i&gt;other people&lt;/i&gt; as long as they leave me alone&amp;quot; attitude is really bizarre to me. If they keep showing you that they can&amp;#x27;t be trusted… maybe believe them?</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m definitely not one of those people who thinks Windows should stay frozen forever as Windows XP, I appreciate we&amp;#x27;re finally getting 15-20 year old features like search filtering in the task manager.&lt;p&gt;But whoever&amp;#x27;s bonus metric is tricking people to sign in with MS accounts is really making it a gross experience. I managed to finally get my new machines install on a local account using &amp;quot;OOBE\BYPASSNRO&amp;quot; although none of the instructions I found online worked for some reason, eventually found the script find myself. Then when trying to eventually register Windows it tricked me into converting to a MS account because the license troubleshooter forces you to login to do anything.&lt;p&gt;Next time I boot my machine its asking for my MS password instead of my local password... So that&amp;#x27;s taught me to never enter my MS account into anything on the desktop because there is a risk it will silently do that.&lt;p&gt;You have a &amp;quot;Home&amp;quot; and a &amp;quot;Pro&amp;quot; version, really just wish for a world where they do this silly scammy behavior in the Home version and let the Pro version just be an actual tool to use hardware. I&amp;#x27;m not using Windows because it&amp;#x27;s a great operating system I&amp;#x27;m only using it because it&amp;#x27;s the only OS in the Venn diagram of &amp;quot;Supports Nvidia GPUs&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Runs Adobe CC&amp;quot;, can&amp;#x27;t they just be happy I use it at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erremerre</author><text>I was a user of several microsoft services that worked relatively well. On computer I used to have onenote and onedrive. On phone I also had the outlook app to manage all emails.&lt;p&gt;For exactly the very same reason you stated, I have stopped using them. Whilst I can still use them on my android phone, there is no point if they dont sync to my computer, and they don&amp;#x27;t sync to my computer because I am afraid of putting my microsoft password in anything that is not firefox.&lt;p&gt;Hence, I already moved out from onenote to Joplin (still synced via onedrive), (I am not happy with the move) and I stopped syncing with Onedrive, and will have to move soon to something else. 
On my phone I stopped having outlook, and I am back to use each app for each email.&lt;p&gt;As you, I am also trap on windows (tried fedora, it simply didn&amp;#x27;t work).&lt;p&gt;Sad times for people who want just a computer that works.</text></comment>