[NTLUG:Discuss] Fwd: [Notify] Windows 11.....

[Cornelius Keck]

I only got involved with 10 because my wife's and kids' laptops run 
that, and this terminal. Otherwise I'd have bypassed everything after 7 
by a wide margin.

XP was pretty darn cool, no wonder it lasted that long. Wish it didn't 
have this dumb online activation mechanism.

On 12/30/2021 12:20 PM, stuart yarus wrote:
> Charles,
> 
> Sorry for the confusion.  I forwarded Cornelius' email to DFWUUG to 
> NTLUG because I thought the content was interesting.
> 
> I have never had a M$ account, and my experience with M$ products stops 
> with Windoze XP.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 1:04 PM crem1111 <crem1111 at hushmail.com 
> <mailto:crem1111 at hushmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Stu,
> 
>     I am lost. WIN11 will not install unless you are hardware compliant.
>     Several
>     of my computers are not CPU and TPM 2.0 compliant.
> 
>     I am assuming your PC is hardware compliant and Micro$oft allowed the
>     download and install. Micro$oft always wants you to approve EULA.
>     I've only
>     gotten around EULA when I clone systems. In prior installs, they
>     have the
>     default that you needed to have a Micro$oft account. There was an
>     option to
>     get around the default without a Micro$oft account. I am expecting the
>     option to go away someday. At that time my Micro$oft account may
>     originate
>     from China. No one will question that.
> 
>     My question: What behavior has changed on Micro$oft? Is M$ account
>     required?
>     Has the option to not have a M$ account gone away.
> 
>     Charles R.
> 
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>     Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Fwd: [Notify] Windows 11.....
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>     ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>     From: Cornelius Keck <dfwuug at keck.us <mailto:dfwuug at keck.us>>
>     Date: Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 12:26 AM
>     Subject: [Notify] Windows 11.....
>     To: <notify at dfwuug.org <mailto:notify at dfwuug.org>>,
>     <members at dfwuug.org <mailto:members at dfwuug.org>>
> 
> 
>     Something not one bit Unix, for a change, but still:
> 
>     My on-the-road laptop blocked logins until agreeing to upgrade to
>     Windows
>     11. Big disappointment right there, not one bit unexpected.
>     Backed it out within 15 minutes after it started up.
> 
>     There are only two good aspects about all this mess:
> 
>     - the upgrade backs out just fine, in realistic time, and
> 
>     - all my Windows 10 stuff appears to be unharmed.
> 
>     This could have ended way worse. Might want to get backups ready before
>     11 hits you, in case stuff goes sideways.
> 
>     I full realize that this is a Unix/Linux/*BSD-oriented group, but
>     many of us
>     have to use Windows here and there, so better beware.
> 
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