I was curious about this too. I went looking and am not finding any new articles about this. Just some from a year ago saying they were intending to do this at some point in the future.
ETA: Just logged into my laptop, which is running Windows 11 Home (it came with it and I haven’t bothered to change that yet), using a local account. I can log in fine. And there are no pending updates.
Looked into this a bit because, from my work experience, I’m pretty sure it’s a lot harder to install Windows 11 with a local account than it used to be. Most people I help are logged in with Microsoft accounts, and most of the results I get when looking at how to make a local account in Win11 are workarounds and command prompt lines.
According to this article last year they tried removing those workarounds.
So it affects new installs, but existing ones are okay (as long as you don’t want to create another new local account). Okay that makes sense. My company is pretty new, but I can’t remember if it was an extra pain in the ass to switch to a local account, or the same pain in the ass as usual.
Wait… really? When? Got a news article?
I was curious about this too. I went looking and am not finding any new articles about this. Just some from a year ago saying they were intending to do this at some point in the future.
ETA: Just logged into my laptop, which is running Windows 11 Home (it came with it and I haven’t bothered to change that yet), using a local account. I can log in fine. And there are no pending updates.
This meme is baseless, at least right now.
Looked into this a bit because, from my work experience, I’m pretty sure it’s a lot harder to install Windows 11 with a local account than it used to be. Most people I help are logged in with Microsoft accounts, and most of the results I get when looking at how to make a local account in Win11 are workarounds and command prompt lines.
According to this article last year they tried removing those workarounds.
https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes
So it affects new installs, but existing ones are okay (as long as you don’t want to create another new local account). Okay that makes sense. My company is pretty new, but I can’t remember if it was an extra pain in the ass to switch to a local account, or the same pain in the ass as usual.
does this mean you can’t log in when your Internet or their server is down ?
I think they store the account info locally so you can login offline, but there may be restrictions to that I’m not aware of.
ah ok. i was imagining stuff like with the burning bed when the cloud goes down ^^