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[mmoy]

> It's just the Windows 8 part that continues to suck - we'll
> see how the new Microsoft CEO can fix it with Windows 9.

I figured out how to detach from MicrosoftLive this past week on Windows 8.1. With Windows 8.1, you are forced to activate by creating a cloud account and you have to login using your cloud credentials. There is a way to go back to what you had in Windows 7 or Windows 8 - a local account. It's not obvious but I found an article (actually lots of them) that provide directions to go back to what you had in the first place.

I really do not understand Microsoft's approach here. Basically they are providing some really bad default behavior which a majority of their customers won't want. Yes, you can undo it but why put upgrade customers through this pain in the first place?

Apple's approach is to make the functionality available but not change something on you by default.