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.

  • Secret300@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Personally I love that Microsoft did this. Please keep making windows more and more shit and annoying to use so people will switch to something else

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      7 months ago

      You vastly underestimate the tolerance of an average user who barely knows their way around a web browser and Word.

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        7 months ago

        My mom doesn’t even have a computer. She’s already retired so there’s not much money to squeeze from that demographic. In my late 20s, 30s and 40s I could build a new computer no problem. I use Linux. There’s no going back ever. Unfortunately I use windows at work cuz I’m forced to do that and I occasionally have to help my wife to windows some shit. No, my kids are going down the Linux rabbit hole.

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          7 months ago

          I said the same thing, until the kids needed to use Office365 for school.

          And NO, Libreoffice won’t cut it because the school is deeply entrenched with Microsoft - it’s not just using Word or whatever, but all those OneDrive things that are so tightly integrated.

          So they run Windows, and I hate it. My work laptop also runs Windows, and I hate it. But there’s only so far you can take your idealism if you still want to be part of a normal functioning society.

          My home server rocks Linux and Docker and whatnot. But work and school? Just accept it.