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kiki
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Windows 7 could be installed without a Microsoft account.
Windows 8 required it, but had a “Skip” button.
Windows 10 also had a skip button, though obscured and inaccessible for those who just click through the process (95% of people).
Windows 11 home doesn’t have a skip button. You have to press Alt + F4 when Windows installer asks you for network connection to avoid it asking to create a Microsoft account.

My girlfriend, a linguist who has nothing to do with programming and computers in general, successfully transferred to a Linux distro after I told her about Microsoft supporting ICE. She says Linux is simpler, she had no problem installing additional software and she liked that cooling fans are never spinning now and that battery life is now solid two times better.

Think about it.

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  • 3
    Fun fact: users were asked to create a Microsoft account even in Windows XP.
  • 1
    Dark patterns like hiding the skip button should be forbidden by law!

    It’s obvious that they are using the existence of the skip button to appease users and at the same time don’t want the user to know about its existence.

    It’s fraud.
  • 2
    @Lensflare can’t get much more right that this
  • 0
    I just hope that intel will be as nice with arc as they've been with their integrated gpus.
  • 1
    @kiki MSN was a GOOD excuse for creating microsoft acc, imo.
  • 1
    @melezorus34 I agree completely
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