Re: My 138 $ Amazon order ( for 6pm today ).

On 2024-05-04 12:27 p.m., chrisv wrote:

Andrzej Matuch wrote:
 

chrisv wrote:

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Andrzej Matuch wrote:

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The mere fact that it is no longer possible to install
Windows without being forced to enter a Microsoft account

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For the home version, and there's work-arounds for that, for the
motivated.

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The mere fact that you need to jump through hoops to do something which
should be a direct option is disgusting.

 Well, they're not called Evilsoft for nothin'.

Yep. I watched a few YouTube videos talking about what happened when companies wanted Windows 3.1 to become a de facto ISO standard. Microsoft really went out of their way to prevent the competition's software from working. It's rather disgusting.

Some of us have a Pro license
but, when we install, we do so by downloading the latest ISO from their
web site so that we won't have to spend a few hours doing updates. That
only affords us the option of installing the Home version; upgrades
happen after the system has already been installed. As a result, you
indeed have to log in.

 If you have a Pro license, you should have a Pro ISO, no?  In that
case, I would use that and endure the hours of updates.

The USB thumb drive I got with the Pro license is 10 Pro. Effectively, I would have to install 10 Pro first and then upgrade to 11. More hoop jumping. Perhaps it is possible to get a Pro ISO and prevent myself the headaches, but even when you use the MediaCreationTool to download the appropriate ISO for the license you have on your system, it uses the Home one.

My most recent experience is, admittedly, dated.  A year ago on my
daughter's new PC.  We started with a Win10 Pro install (I had a legal
license from work that was collecting dust) and then used Micro$oft's
Win11 update tool.  It did take a while, but we got what we wanted -
no M$ account and legal.

I can do it that way too and it does work rather well to prevent me from logging into my Microsoft account. However, you end up spending hours dong updates.
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Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
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