{"id":575,"date":"2015-05-30T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quppa.net\/?p=575"},"modified":"2015-05-30T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T01:00:25","slug":"windows-10-is-slightly-less-pushy-about-requiring-microsoft-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/30\/windows-10-is-slightly-less-pushy-about-requiring-microsoft-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 is slightly less pushy about requiring Microsoft accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Windows 8, users were strongly encouraged to use a Microsoft account to sign in to their computers. For those of us who preferred local accounts, the option to ‘sign in without a Microsoft account’ was presented in faint text at the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n

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In Windows 8.1, the option to use a local account for a fresh installation appeared to be missing entirely. Only entering a bad username\/password combination or disabling internet access would allow one to create a local account.<\/p>\n

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As of build 10125 of Windows 10 there is once again an easy way to create a local account – an option to ‘skip this step’ is available. This is a small but very welcome change and I hope it survives to RTM.<\/p>\n

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In related news, the OneDrive desktop client in Windows 10 no longer requires that the user be logged in with a Microsoft account (of course, one must still sign in to OneDrive separately with a Microsoft account).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Windows 8, users were strongly encouraged to use a Microsoft account to sign in to their computers. For those of us who preferred local accounts, the option to ‘sign in without a Microsoft account’ was presented in faint text at the bottom of the screen. In Windows 8.1, the option to use a local … Continue reading “Windows 10 is slightly less pushy about requiring Microsoft accounts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[84,172],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-microsoft-account","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}