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Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

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268 points tech234a | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 04:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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samiv ◴[29 Mar 25 07:00 UTC] No.43513408[source]▶
I'm also 100% convinced Microsoft will introduce mandatory code signing at some point and make it so that you can only ever install software from Windows Store.

They are envious of the Google and Apple walled gardens/cashcows and are now determined to turn Windows into one.

Windows is no longer a product for users, the users of Windows are the product for Microsoft to be shoved into the Azure sales funnel.

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cedws ◴[29 Mar 25 08:19 UTC] No.43513761[source]▶
That would never work, they would have to have some kind of override. Microsoft doesn’t have that kind of leverage over Windows users because they don’t have tight vertical integration. If Windows 12 enforced that, users would just stay on Windows 11 and MS’ leverage would decrease even further.
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sshine ◴[29 Mar 25 08:28 UTC] No.43513805[source]▶
I can’t believe people didn’t stay on Windows 7. It seems to have slid into some always-online ad-filled cloud hellhole since. Office365 is worse than Office 2000. This is the OEM strategy still at play. You gotta hand it to Bill Gates for capturing PCs for decades. People truly don’t care how poor their operating system behaves, because your only other option is to buy a Mac.
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1. d_tr ◴[29 Mar 25 09:33 UTC] No.43514083[source]▶
Too much fuss with community hacks to maybe get stuff working and end up having wasted time in any case. There is too much garbage to deal with in modern computing already. And some features are just not available with or without hacks.

If I want to use a decent OS, I can do most of my development on Fedora or Arch or some other Linux distro at my workplace.

For proprietary stuff that won't work there, honestly, Windows 11 is not that bad as far as Windows go. I do not get ads, I use a local account without problems and I can do development actually decently with PowerShell, vcpkg, VS Code which Microsoft offers for free and which work on all platforms.

TL;DR: There are hills with a much better view to die on.