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schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months ago

Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts

www.pcworld.com

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Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts

www.pcworld.com

schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months ago
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Many users use an e-mail trick to avoid creating a Microsoft account. This has now apparently been stopped by Microsoft.
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    11 months ago

    That dude who predicted Windows 12 being a cloud OS was probably dead on the money.

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      How would a cloud OS even work? Like what would your PC boot in to?

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        Probably a minimal environment that streams the desktop to you. Must be the smallest windows install on a local PC ever.

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