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gdulli ◴[] No.45763751[source]
There used to be a much bigger scene around custom Windows installs and I hope it gets resurrected if/when the ability to create local accounts goes away. The desire for a tiny install is pretty niche at this point but I could see demand going up to preserve local accounts.

Or perhaps that won't be necessary because certain enterprise customers will insist on local accounts and it will be easier for pirates to just tap into that install path? One way or another, if/when local accounts go away I hope there's some option to work around it.

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ZiiS ◴[] No.45764551[source]
Do any enterprise use local accounts? I guess for airgapped?
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1. nolok ◴[] No.45771967[source]
It's a big part of why Microsoft has struggled to kill ALL path to local account, entreprise don't use local but they don't use regular cloud account either, they use active directory account. Which, in windows world, are local account that sync with a local server.

They're pushing hard to push all active directory to Azure AD and the like.