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Microsoft possibly reconsidering the necessity of demanding new Windows 11 computers use Microsoft accounts. They must have realized they're helping Apple, maybe Google, and Linux with their demands. Or just slowing Windows 11 adoption, which they need to help with Microsoft 365 sales.

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Stay away from Microsoft OneDrive (aka "Windows Backup" although it's NOT really a backup app) if you don't want a Microsoft subscription of some kind, they'll push it on you right away if you log into a Windows computer with a Microsoft account, which Microsoft is now heavily enforcing with new Windows 11 computers. It will also move your files to the OneDrive folder without warning. All in a desperate attempt to get another $2-20 per month out of anybody/everybody. I disable it from startup on most machines, but often it's already moved files into the OneDrive folder before that so all the data has to be moved back to the original folders after a restart with Onedrive disabled.

Facebook ending fact checking? Bad idea. Way too many ads too. Big Tech in general has become more and more obnoxious, intrusive, and misleading.

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Apple no longer supporting Mac OS earlier than OS 11? 4 years, that's it? With the cost of Macintosh computers they can't support their OS versions for 5 years or more while Microsoft supports Windows versions for 10 years, sometimes more?

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