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I just today installed windows in a virtual machine because I have an interview in the next few days, and ms teams is the schroedinger video call, dear satan are these people bad, from the inability to use it without a ms account because it doesn’t give the button to skip, but how much upselling of onedrive, office, edge, migration of data etc, just let me use the os and stfu

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If you use a banned email address for install it'll skip the registration and allow you to use a local account.

no@thankyou.com

I used MS Teams via a web browser using Linux for a couple of years. Should support video calling via WebRTC.

It works 1 time every 2, but there is a chance that microphone for example doesn't work, and I was tired of taking my chances, or having to install chrome on linux, so I just now have a VM that when I need teams, I can boot and then shut down and forget about it

Teams loads super slowly or not at all these days as of this morning in Firefox. The page frequently blanks and repaints.

It also requires adding 7 microsoft sites to the 3rd party cookie exception list that are totally necessary and not for spying on users.

Microsoft has never fundamentally changed, they just got smarter and are playing a longer game now.

it's worse than that.. if you spam alt+f4 or wait long enough it will eventually let you install without an MS account

Oh thank you very much for the information kind stranger

Press Shift + F10 to launch the command prompt then type in 'OOBE\BYPASSNRO' and press Enter. The system will reboot and you can proceed without a MS account.

I did this a couple of times lately on a bare metal install as well as in a VM.

I've found myself setting up a new Windows install - sometimes VM, sometimes bare metal - every 4-8 weeks for the past 6 months and it's sooooo painful. My computer is a vehicle for getting work done - just let me use the damn thing.

Why not take a snapshot image of the base install and just revert to that?

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