It’s going to be funny to watch their Pikachu face reaction when this decision chases off a good chunk of their users.
The vast majority of users will click okay to any box that says “do this to keep using Windows”
Without even reading it.
The vast majority of users won’t even notice.
People said that about Netflix and their password crackdown… their profits went up.
We’ll just have to wait and see, I guess. People didn’t jump ship when Windows 8 became the norm (which didn’t last long, thankfully), so I’m not expecting the needle to move much over a feature most users will never even know exists. A man can dream, though.
And this is the straw in which I will instruct Microsoft to suck shit through.
Pretty sure I have seen a prompt suggesting switching to MS account before and MS already hides local account creation during setup.
It’s not like local accounts will disappear unless there will be an actual redesign of whole OS which is very unlikely since then you loose all the backwards compatibility.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9922439
WizardBeard has advised how to get rid of the nagging without any RegEdit or Profile Editing.
It’s sad that Microsoft insists on such a dangerous idea in the name of profits.
Capitalism
This is not new. Microsoft has been pushing users further into their SaaS ecosystem for years. Creating a local account on Windows 10 is more difficult than signing up for a Microsoft account. That’s by design. It just goes along with the transition of their core business away from desktop software and into hosted solutions and data processing. Annoying? A little. Surprising? Hardly.
One of the first things MS did after buying Mojang was to slap Azure AD on it for account management; and it’s been a number of years now since they switched to that being the only way to authenticate to Minecraft.
This has definitely been the frog boiling strategy at Microsoft for a decade or so. It’s likely a big part of why Windows 11 exits, too.
Boo
Can they just fuck off already? I sign into windows like once every 2 months and every time it’s different and a worse experience. All my customizations using built in menus get messed up too and the shit that just shows up without asking. “We put the search back on the start bar!” Like fucking actually why?!
I sign into windows
Ah, there’s your problem.
While I am using AtlasOS (Windows with bloat stripped off), it still kinda behaves like windows in someway compared to Ameliorated which doesn’t have Microsoft tracking and updates anymore.
I woke up in the night and stared at my PC at around 3:00am and suddenly my PC starts from the suspend. I assume this is a way to update Windows secretely but I never asked for it and it damaged me emotionally because my devices behave in unexpected and unpredictable ways.
I learned to always shutdown.
I used atlas for a while but there are a number of issues. If I want to flash reverse engineered firmware to proprietary hardware it often requires patched windows tools leaked from the manufacturer and I haven’t had that work any other way than stock windows. Capitalism with no real consumer protections has fucked us in so many ways.
This sucks heavily
I’ve never heard of AtlasOS until this comment. I read the documentation and it’s interesting that they need you to install it using a fresh Windows ISO. I wonder what they are doing that can’t be accomplished on an existing Windows installation with a bunch of Powershell scripts?
Atlas is an insecure mess, not a real solution for Windows problems. Consider a Windows alternative.
I am visiting this mess only to play Half Life alyx and some other VR games.
I am full time Linux everywhere. Even on my Chromebook which doesnt have ChromeOS anymore.
They can pry my local account from my cold dead hands
And even then good luck! For I will have glued it to my cold dead hands.
If only there was an alternative to windows somewhere!
In tech jobs where you write code, everyone uses Linux or mac. :)
I had a ying yang work experience with two companies as a pupil.
One used Linux and I had unexpected skills making me solve and create a product/feature. The project manager was kind and a nerd like me. The chef was sweet kind.
The other company used Microsoft products in every corner like a hardcore football fan. The project manager was kinda toxic and it was hard to explain something to him as he pretended to have knowledge and the chef was rarely in a happy mood and often screaming at him. He didn’t knew many things about Microsoft products and browser itself, he just coded and didn’t understood its entirety back knowledge. He expected me to be some master student and graded me bad for skills no pupil had in our class as we just only learned Java in school, I could use all langauages they used and it still wasn’t enough.
Y u no program like senior engineer when you come out of school. We even pay you competitive ( minimum ) IT wage!
Code more for company in your own time so you can catch up.
1/5 performance review.
I wish that was the case. Also, I was being sarcastic. :)
In a corporate setting there usually isn’t
In a corporate setting it isn’t your computer though.
Yeah, corporate dystopia is a thing.
I use Linux on my desktop at work, and sometimes you might end up with an apple computer instead depending on the employer.
The monopoly is slipping.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same. The Linux setup there is a fucking mess though… AD authentication freezes login for a minute or so if you switch networks at the wrong moment, puppet keeps messing with the system and recently they installed clamav as a live malware scanner on all machines, making them eat batteries for breakfast and slowing down even menial tasks. If you have admin rights, they refuse to add your user to sudoers but instead create a new admin user (another indicator that they’re just really coming from windows) which everybody just uses to add their original user to sudoers, which was a nice workaround but which they now noticed and want to prohibit via puppet or user rights or something. It’s just such a mess. I mean, still leagues ahead of using windows, but a corporate environment really is a machine that transforms time and money into a terrible experience for everybody.
IT departments will have to adapt, of course.
I mean they (actually we) usually have a bad time even transitioning from windows 10 to 11, Linux will 100% be a mess for a good while.
Oh we have a dedicated Linux service contract with a dedicated Linux support company that has technicians just to deal with Linux issues and provide the Linux setup. We’ve had time to adapt. I guess some bloke still decided that there just had to be a malware scanner and now we all have to eat shit. This is much less a lesson for it departments and much more a lesson that the people who manage stuff just have other goals than the people working with the tools that are managed, so you end up with somebody who wants to cover their ass in case something goes wrong in the future and makes it a terrible experience for everybody in the process but can sell it as a necessity to the people below and as action to the people above.
Why don’t they go with Microsoft Defender for Linux? I have never used it so don’t know if it’s still a battery hog…
I mean, scanning your download folder, if there is something new, could make sense in a high-risk environment. But only if.
Redhat?
In a corporate setting you’re probably using Active Directory for authentication and don’t have a local account anyway.
Good evening
There are a few alternatives to Windows out there at this time, if you were to look into React OS and Great Tea OS to see what those are about.
i ditched the local account along with the whole dumb operating system.
That’s the way to go
Windows 12 being in the cloud may probably not be too crazy. I’m betting most people won’t care and just blindly create a microsoft account.
You mean it will be just like chromeOS or whatever that is called?
Maybe but it might have a full virtualized option where your local is just a client to stream the virtualized cloud env.
App-V was the start of this in about 2008.
if only it recognized my wifi card, which it doesn’t. neither 10 nor 11 do
That’s actually why I installed Linux, lol.
I bought a Wi-Fi card and I couldn’t seem to make it work in Windows 10.
So I searched for the model number online and found out that it was only compatible with Windows 7, wtf?
So I installed Linux mint and it recognized the Wi-Fi card automatically.
Install Linux and be done with the shit from Microsoft already
This means nothing to the average user because the difference doesn’t change their perceived experience
I’m sure they fucking will. Can’t harvest your data (as readily) if you aren’t online. Fuckers.
