Microsoft Doesn’t Want You to Use a Local Windows Account

> The situation ironically illustrates why I didn’t write about this at the time. I did some testing on Windows 1809 last year, but I didn’t allow it to connect to the internet to finish setup. Good thing I didn’t. If you do, you can’t configure a local account.

It's been like that for ages, if I recall correctly.

I guess Microsoft is worried about losing that data point for serving targeted advertising. I would bet most people don't opt out, or use tools to disable that, or are a part of a corporate network and have group policies that do so.

* https://www.privacytools.io/operating-systems/#win10

* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-conn...

I know we seem to dote on Apple here, but the default behavior in OS X has been to create an iCloud account as a user account for quite some time.