Microsoft apparently removing ‘Offline Accounts’ for international Windows users

Re:Microsoft apparently removing ‘Offline Accounts’ for inte... by pjmlp on Sunday February 23, 2020 @05:00AM (#22396024)

You can use the iCloud or Google Play ones instead.

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Re:Microsoft apparently removing ‘Offline Accounts’ for inte... by xylol on Sunday February 23, 2020 @05:26AM (#22396143)

How can you use these to login to windows? Using a PC offline makes sense for many reasons, taking this away reduces the value of the OS.

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Re:Microsoft apparently removing ‘Offline Accounts’ for inte... by pjmlp on Sunday February 23, 2020 @06:46AM (#22396409)

By making the point that Microsoft is a follower in this regard, yet the community complains about them as if Apple and Google eco-systems were some kind of angels.

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Re:Microsoft apparently removing ‘Offline Accounts’ for inte... by StanislavPetrov on Sunday February 23, 2020 @07:23PM (#22400575)

I don't use Apple or Google services.

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Re:Microsoft apparently removing ‘Offline Accounts’ for inte... by pjmlp on Monday February 24, 2020 @04:09AM (#22402658)

So using a feature phone.

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Re:Microsoft apparently removing ‘Offline Accounts’ for inte... by StanislavPetrov on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @01:07AM (#22411257)

Flip phone. I don't believe in trading my privacy for convenience, much less being coerced into doing so by Microsoft or any other corporation.

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