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Elon Musk finally says something we can all agree on: No one wants to have to log in with a Microsoft Account on Windows 11 (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The more funny part of this statement is he's too fucking dumb to Google "set up windows 11 without Microsoft account" and follow exactly 3 steps to bypass the OOBE wizard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

To be fair, the option is pretty easy to miss for someone who isn't technical. Font size -11000 and grwy or whatever, though I might exaggerate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They break whatever process people use whenever they feel like it.

Whether the loopholes are incompetence or just for the sake of them being able to claim "you don't need an account", they definitely aren't stable and consistent options. And it's pretty clear that at some point they're going to cross the line and just make you have an account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

What? Ctrl+F10 for Command Prompt and then oobe\bypassnro has always worked, and I don't see Microsoft removing it anytime soon. Who do you think put the bypassnro.bat script in the OOBE directory on every Windows installation media?