Look at the atrocious consumer abusive workflow to trap a person into signing up for a microsoft cloud-everything account in the new installation workflow for a

Look at the atrocious consumer abusive workflow to trap a person into signing up for a microsoft cloud-everything account in the new installation workflow for a brand new Windows 10 or 11 install. Or the out-of-box first user experience upon opening and using a new windows 11 laptop. You literally cannot even complete a fresh windows 11 install without a live internet connection now, if you're an ordinary non technical end user. It demands to be connected to some form of wired network or wireless with internet access to report home to microsoft and make a cloud based account. They clearly decided that getting people to sign up for a forever-recurring monthly paid cloud service plan in perpetuity was the best way to go for revenue. Or at least bait them into it by methods like "oh, here's your free 5GB onedrive account, you can totally back up your whole system and use onedrive for everything. What's that, you're out of storage space on your free account? Sign up now for this $12/month account for (some_large_number_of_GB)!"