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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by emodendroket on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @01:49PM (#12306649)
> - They are continuing to try to weasel the Windows Store into my life by buying up or forcing exclusives (games), with all the drawbacks of UWP.

A neat trick is if you download something from the Windows App store and sign in for the first time without using an MSN account to log into your PC, it will ask you something like "Do you want to use this login with all Microsoft services?" And if you say yes then your login is converted to the MSN account, which you won't realize until you next need to log in.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by cowkingdeluxe on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @04:12PM (#12308025)
Learned that the hard way on my primary development machine. Have a crazy long randomly generated password for my Microsoft account. Had to reset password on a different machine.
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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by emodendroket on Thursday August 18, 2016 @09:37AM (#12312356)
Haha, yikes. It's also a pain in the ass to change it back once you figure it out.
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