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Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them
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this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2024
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Honest question: What does Microsoft expect people with no Internet access to do?
They're poor...fuck 'em, who needs them!?
This is the actual, real, subpoena-the-emails-you’ll-find-it answer.
I guarantee some smarmy PM said it in Teams when a developer asked this question.
People with no internet access obviously don't exist.
They added telemetry. 100% of responses had internet access.
Beauty.
Microsoft learned the right lesson, everyone has internet! \s
That’s just science.
I see what you did there.
Flawless statistics!
When I bought my Windows 11 laptop a month ago, I was able to set up a local account after turning on airplane mode. (I had entered my wifi password in an earlier step since I thought it was just for installing updates.)
Afaik, it'll just use a cached login
What chached login? This is talking about a fresh install on a clean (or wiped clean) drive.
Where would this be cached on a brand new PC never connected to the internet?
Ah, I misunderstood. If there's no Internet during initial install, pretty sure it'll just default to using local. I'm not 100% certain, though, as I've not setup a totally offline install in a long time. I also haven't used any edition of Windows that wasn't at least Professional or Enterprise, so I'm guessing there's differences there as well for account management.
Yeah that has been entirely removed in the Win 11 initial setup. It does not default to local account.
You literally have to disconnect internet, open a console window, type in oobe/bypassnro and then reboot. Only then will it default to a local account.
Yikes, that's ridiculous. Microsoft incompetence and greed at its finest.
I travel. My Internet is off until I activate my hotspot. Whatever MS is doing, it ain't worth it to me. I went all in on Linux (I use PopOS btw) a couple years ago.