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This is more a dark pattern issue: user who's connected to the Internet during OOBE stage of installation will be forced to create or login with online account
by pndy 7y ago
This is more a dark pattern issue: user who's connected to the Internet during OOBE stage of installation will be forced to create or login with online account because it won't have other choice visible while the choice still exist but is simply hidden, because of MS "goals".
- labawi 7y agoCan confirm. I was installing Win10 for a fried a few weeks ago and couldn't create a local account. After a couple minutes of search to no avail, I tried: Just how is that supposed to work if I unplug the internet? By letting you create a local account, of course.
- pndy 7y agoLast time I had to reinstall, OOBE creator nagged me twice to go online when it couldn't detect network connection - it even show me Wifi page while my PC has an older motherboard that doesn't feature it. That was kinda... desperate.