😂 Elon Musk just crawled from under a rock and discovered something that has been bothering people for years. It is just too funny not to share this one.
Image description: Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 42m Just bought a new PC laptop and it won't let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their Al access to my computer! This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account. Are you seeing this too? This is not cool of Microsoft.
(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-25)
shift + F10 to open a command prompt during the out-of-box-experience setup bit.
Type OOBE\BYPASSNRO and press enter.
Think it stands for something like Out Of Box Experience / Bypass Network Requirement O-something.
Your computer will restart, and you will have the "I dont have Internet option" allowing you to create a local account
"Setup for an organization" and "domain-join instead", but you aren't forced to domain-join later. At least that's how it's done on Windows Pro. No idea about Home/Standard/whatever it's called now.
Yup... still need to create an account to use but if you're not online..no bueno for Microsoft bueno for local account. Just beware, you won't be able to take advantage of all of Microsoft....cloud services or the telemetry you can't opt out of..