Not by choice, I was given a new laptop from HP that required signing into a Microsoft account before the computer would continue its initial setup. I to create

Not by choice, I was given a new laptop from HP that required signing into a Microsoft account before the computer would continue its initial setup. I to create a throwaway account just to access the computer my office paid for. That and the cloud-basing of all software (can you even get office for desktop anymore?) and increasingly, it seems like the management of software is taken out of the hands of the user.