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I eventually got to create a local account on my laptop by putting it into airplane mode using the keyboard shortcut. Why is Microsoft so desperate to force even power users to use an online account?
Control and telemetry. You’re the “coppertop” putting $ back into Microsoft.
I get that that's why they want ordinary users to create online accounts but irritating the small but vocal number of power users that this change affects seems like it costs more in goodwill than it gains in data.
I’ll offer this as a power user: I do everything I can to avoid feeding back info to the corporations. I shut off telemetry, usage stats, block ads, actively monitor updates for undesirable changes, don’t enable quick start or other background software, don’t enable a lot of startup software or processes….etc etc. basically to prevent them looking over my shoulder as much as possible.
So if you’re that kind of power user it actually works against Microsoft’s interest to allow you to opt out, you’re already “costing” them lost opportunity to make money.
And of course we have to deal with the fact that getting the software “free” means you don’t own it and have to play by their rules.
Power users are more useful from a telemetry perspective. Chances are I can predict the basic grandma and grandpa use patterns, but power users represent interesting and novel use cases, feature ideas, etc.