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>>kotaKa+(OP)
I never really got into "phone" progrmaming, always waiting for the shenanigans to die down. But somehow the shanigans have gotten worse and for a significant chunk of the world population, the phone is the only computation device they have at all.

>>Kim_Br+ZD
You now need to have an online account to setup and login on a Windows desktop. It's obvious what the trend is and it's not allowing consumers control over their stuff.

>>bobaje+u11
Not related to the OP, but no you don't.

Just look up how to skip the "OOTB (out of the box) experience" and you can still bypass having to set up a cloud account on Windows 11 and can just set up a local account like normal. :)

>>gaudys+y31
Last I checked, Microsoft was trying to get rid of it.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-elim...

It's still possible to set up using only a local account, but who knows for how long.

>>lazyco+0g1
The day windows become "Online-Only" OS will be the day i move from Windows for good.

>>mrheos+OL1
With how much worse the experience of using Windows has gotten, why wait? Many hills have already come and gone. This is the hill you're willing to die on?