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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by yellow_postit on Sunday September 29, 2019 @10:08AM (#21107117)
MacOS also prompts incessantly trying to get you to create and/or link a cloud account.

Neither Mac or Windows really requires an account but they make it an inconvenient path.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by Wowfunhappy on Sunday September 29, 2019 @02:41PM (#21108823)
> MacOS also prompts incessantly trying to get you to create and/or link a cloud account.

Well, kind of. It seems to prompt me once per service, more or less. If I keep closing them, I've found that macOS does eventually shut up.

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