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Re:Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows... by kace91 on Monday October 06, 2025 @09:03PM (#45498232)
>While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical setup screens

Poor people. Surely Microsoft is fixing this by giving them a proper local skip that doesn’t bypass the other critical setup?

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Re:Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows... by altairprime on Monday October 06, 2025 @09:06PM (#45498255)
Presumably the business/enterprise editions still do?
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Re:Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows... by Marsymars on Monday October 06, 2025 @11:08PM (#45499015)
Maybe not for the long term; business/enterprise are mostly using domain accounts for non-server systems.
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Re:Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows... by jwitthuhn on Monday October 06, 2025 @11:28PM (#45499105)
Enterprise might but Professional sure doesn't.
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Re:Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows... by kirenida on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:17AM (#45499601)
I just installed a copy of 25H2 on a laptop with a previously saved Professional licence.

You can just choose to create a "work or school account" and then leave the domain name empty.

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Re:Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows... by jwitthuhn on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:47AM (#45499752)
Interesting, will give that a try next time. I guess I never looked because I had assumed that option made you connect to an existing domain.
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Re:Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows... by kirenida on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @06:33AM (#45501422)
I've used that workaround on literally dozens of installations in the last few years :)
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Re:Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows... by altairprime on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @11:08AM (#45504079)
Thanks!

I wonder how much of this is Microsoft trying to create recurring profits from the base (Home) sku, rather than that they care about local-user installations in any other circumstance.

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