two things;
i'm not sure what a M$ account entails. Frankly i wouldn't be terribly bothered with having to have an online account to log in to a PC, but there are two things i am worried about, which are:
1. the account being matched to my ownership of the OS
2. the account being (eventually?) linked to online activities.
I'm all for paying M$ their fair share for a OS license, but i dont want to be at risk of being accidentally locked out of my own PC. Not like that's never happened, no?
I'm also seriously worried about my doing-something on one website, being reflected in another, the way that Google does.
I have a completely 100% fake account with Google and i don't want my potential LinkedIn recruiter seeing that i have a Quake clan named "4ss R4pers" or that i play as "G4yShi7lord69" on COD
true story;
i still own a email account @doramail (doraemon fans email, ok?) which is from the early 90s and, once upon a time, used cookies for security, then went to passwords, but i still have a 4-character password. And if that's not shocking enough for you, i also had a @kittymail (hello kitty fans) account, and both companies were bought by Mail.com, so today you would go to www.mail.com and in the username, you put account@domain.com and then your password.
Now, because - keep in mind, this is early 90s - mail.com saw me access both accounts from my same PC, without asking, they merged the two emails. Now each account is a separate folder in the other. Never even bothered with a "is this your email?" popup.
second, LTSC is something that everyone ought to know exists. Not just because it's awesome, but because before W10 launched, everyone who had a brain thought "how the f* am i going to deploy this garbage on my work environment?". With Cortana and all that telemetry bull***t.
So obviously M$ had to work behind the scenes to deliver a OS that doesnt actually suck, but they don't advertise LTSC at all, it's like, if you are a commoner, a pleb, you don't even know it exists, only serious businesses that are one step of frustration away from moving to a Linux UI get to have it.
And basically it's W10 stripped of all the garbage that has nil real-world functionality for users, or if you want it explained in another way, it's W7 with the engine upgrades of 10.
So do what an ethical pirate does, pay your $89 (via some dodgy russian website) for your M$ license, then throw it in the garbage and install W10 LTSC. No cortana, no "APPS", no commercials for M$-associated products on your desktop, no sending data to M$, no forced updates, sure it can take a little bit of tweaking, but you can tailor it to make it exactly like W7, including the classic-style Start button and UI.