MS is using the boiling frog strategy. They will likely increase the difficulty of creating/using local accounts in the future, with the end game of completely removing support in a couple of years. Then you will either need an MS online account or an enterprise AD account.

Well it's all a part of them trying to turn Windows into iOS like device management system, including the "family" aspect of app store and subscriptions.

When was the last time you used an iOS device without an Apple ID?

“When was the last time you used an iOS device without an Apple ID?”

So that’s what I’m doing wrong!

> When was the last time you used an iOS device without an Apple ID?

That's not the point. The point is that Apple gives you a choice.

Have you actually used the device with that choice? Pretty hard when every app and functionality expects some sort of cross device or global identity tie in.

BTW, the choice still exists but is only readily shown on enterprise sku

I wonder how that affects activation.