Image description: Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 42m Just bought a new PC laptop and it won’t let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their Al access to my computer! This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account. Are you seeing this too? This is not cool of Microsoft.
(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-25)
Even on the Pro edition, on the most recent version it doesn’t have an option up front for a local account.
Apparently the workaround, for now at least, is to try signing in with a@a.com and a random password. It then tells you the account is locked due to incorrect sign in attempts, and gives you an option for a local account.
Good luck if it comes with S mode enabled though
I would assume it was for work and he would have it connected to a domain. With group policy you can set to use local accounts as default if I remember correctly.