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- hackernews
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
Now when trying to activate the OS by attempting to call the phone number for Microsoft Product Activation, an automated voice response says the following: "Support for product activation has moved online.
Linux is this way, guys.
Yeah. Owning the thing you pay for is a premium feature.
That doesn’t make sense.
Yeah, but that’s apparently how Microsoft rolls, as you noted.
💯 this. Yes, you can still create a local account from the Out of Box Experience with the Pro version when selecting “Domain Join”. But my original statement still stands as this feature had to be added back in after many folks complained. Whereas the Home version has been slowly losing the methods to just make an account and go about your day. Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
FUD. The pro version has always had local account creation during OOBE.