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Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. (mashable.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well, Microsoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

are likely to just buy a Mac instead

That's fine, actually. I can talk to a Mac user. I can say things like "it's in a folder under your Home directory" and they will know exactly where that is. Windows users will just stare at you, slack-jawed and drooling.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Windows user A will not know what their home directory is and will respond as described. Windows user B will assume that it is their "my documents" folder, which may or may not be the case, because: Windows user C will know that there are effectively three home directories in Windows (/users/username, /users/username/documents, and /users/username/appadata/local) but that won't help anybody determine which one some program actually put the goddamn file in.