Month: October 2025

Microsoft Account Required? Who Cares?

These folks at Bleeping Computer seem to be on the bandwagon warning us that Microsoft is going to shut all the workarounds to avoid using a Microsoft Account for Windows 11.

Did anyone mention that you can just make a bogus email that you never use for anything and then call that a Microsoft account? That seems like a pretty obvious work around to maintain your privacy while satisfying the bogus requirement that Microsoft has created to allow you to use Windows 11.

Is Microsoft really so brain-dead that they don’t realize that folks will do that? And if we do that, what does Microsoft gain by harvesting an email that I never use for anything? I suppose they assume that somehow they can make money off of the email that they harvest when they require me to make a Microsoft Account. But I’m not required to ever look at whatever email they send me there – Except maybe once when they check that it’s a valid email.

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Whitemane Frostmourne Experience

I’ve found another Wow Private Server. For Wow, this one looks, and works very nicely. I’ve played it for a few hours. But I’m going to move on from Wow. I’ll get to that later.

Whitemane can be found at Whitemane.org. I was most interested in the Wrath of the Lich King [WotLK] expansion since it adds the Northrend continent, and flight in both Outland and Northrend. I found the Frostmourne experience very stable. No constant reboots as with Project Ascension. No crashes. There were a couple of funny behaviors but only a few in the week or so that I played.

The signup is a little odd. You sign up at PlayerID.me, whatever that is, and you must have either a gmail or another well known email – I forget which one. And they send a message to verify your email. No surprise. But it went smoothly.

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