One of the most common things people still reach out to me for help with is when they are travelling with a windows laptop, go to a country they have been to an

One of the most common things people still reach out to me for help with is when they are travelling with a windows laptop, go to a country they have been to and worked from before, and Microsoft helpfully locks the account. I then have to make a judgement call wrt them being competent enough for me to walk them through the process of booting into recovery mode and prying this shit out. The official support channels, if they respond at all, often take weeks to handle it. And FWIW, I still see this happen to people with Apple products more.