Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by viraptor on Sunday September 29, 2019 @02:54AM (#21105545)

Why N VMs? You had one before, you can have one VM with multiple apps (if you can even count office parts as multiple apps)

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by darklajid on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:44AM (#21105917)

Sorry, kinda mixed the "Need office" requirement I wrote about and my previous "Different VMs for different needs" (Office was one, a Windows product I build extensions for was in another, then the corporate environment tends to keep VMware images around to simulate a customer environment / to prepare a demo system for sales etc etc).

You're right. One VM could work for office and other utilities. Unfortunately for me it grew into a mess of VMs, fast.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by snagglegaggle on Sunday September 29, 2019 @03:06PM (#21108998)

If you can set up stuff in Windows VM, you can enable RemoteApp and freerdp can just show a seamless window. Kind of like parallels.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by fnenrjfkdke on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:53AM (#21106515)

I think Qubes OS targets your use case. It has support for Windows 7 although I never got around to trying it out.

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