News Instead of spending time bugfixing Win11, MS again tries to stop MS account bypasses during setup

[mikeymikec]

Microsoft Blocks Online Account Bypass on Windows 11

Microsoft has released its latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6772 (KB5065797) in the Dev Channel. While it introduces some new Copilot-powered features and updates to Windows Hello, it also rings a death sentence to bypassing Microsoft Online Account, which is now mandatory for...

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Hopefully OEMs will stick with 24H2 images for a long time yet!

 

[Steltek]

There is another workaround now you can use to install without a Microsoft account:

If they hold to form, I suspect the next thing Microsoft will do is disable the ability to open a command prompt during installation.

 

[mikeymikec]

There is another workaround now you can use to install without a Microsoft account:

If they hold to form, I suspect the next thing Microsoft will do is disable the ability to open a command prompt during installation.

I want to know where these workarounds keep coming from. The guy in your video seems likely to have mixed basic techniques (NET USER) with a bit of sleuthing re the OOBE registry key structure (kudos to him), but IMO some of the previous techniques probably had inside help. Someone at MS who can't stand the idea of MS account integration, or perhaps they just have a chaotic alignment