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.
Seriously?
The whole thing sounds like a non-thing to me. Big deal Mr. Microsoft. You have harvested an email that I never use. So I’m never going to see spam you send there or if you sell the email to someone else, I’m not going to see any spam they send there.
Is Microsoft going to add things to Windows 11 to watch my activity on the computer and then tie that into that email address somehow? Well if they want to snoop on what I do on the computer, they can have done that, but they don’t think that my “Microsoft” or that “Email” it’s tied to are my real identity do they? Maybe if I use their store, and give them a payment method then they can harvest something. But I don’t “buy” anything in the Microsoft Store.
What the heck. Just another meaningless hoop to jump through to install Windows 11. Yawn. There is an annoying thing tho. As you install Windows 11 on one computer, you have to have access to another computer – or your phone – to read an email to that account to verify the email. So if you have no phone and no other computer, how do you install Windows 11. I don’t know. Whatever.
I would use Linux on all my computers for all my needs, but there are some games I play that don’t run on Linux. A small few of games run on Linux, but not the ones I play. So I use Windows.
:ww
I didn’t post this as a comment to the article above at Bleeping Computer because I was required to register and agree to a lot of nonsense and provide an email and a lot of information to their site. Foo that.
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