Decisions to be made before moving to Windows 11

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TAME YOUR TECH By Susan Bradley I’ve been promising a step-by-step guide to help you migrate to Windows 11 as neatly and safely as possible. This isn’
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What camp are you in?

I’m in the camp of being in control. I don’t like someone else decide on my behalf what’s best for me. Yet we’re all heading in that direction, by making everything as-a-service. This as-a-service thing isn’t exactly new. For example, car rentals. The rental company buys the car, pays taxes and maintenance and I pay rent and gas. New-style as-a-service means I buy the car, pay rent, maintenance and gas. And I need to pay the rental company to be able to drive. And I shouldn’t be surprised if the rental company occasionally changes something on my car. Like changing it from stick-shift to automate. Would anyone buy a car under these terms?

 

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The problem with your analogy is that you are not purchasing Windows. You are buying a license to use Windows under the terms that Microsoft sets. You have to agree to the license terms to use Windows. One of the terms is that Microsoft gets to do whatever it wants to the product. Your choice is to use it or not. Of course, there are many tools available to change much of Windows’s behavior. If that is not acceptable to you, you must investigate an alternative OS.

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Susan Bradley wrote:

…without a Microsoft account, you can’t set up Windows Hello

I have Windows Hello setup on all local accounts on all my installations, use a PIN for all of them, and do not have a Microsoft account on any of them.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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