Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account

Microsoft is cracking down on bypass methods that let Windows 11 installs use a local account, and avoid an internet requirement during the setup process. In a new Windows 11 test build released today ...
Opinion
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Microsoft is cracking down on local accounts, but here's how you can still make one

Microsoft may be cracking down on using local accounts, but there's still a workaround or two to avoid logging in to a Microsoft account.
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Want to use local accounts? Just switch to Linux

Microsoft really doesn't want you making local accounts. For the company, local accounts do nothing for it. Local accounts ...
The Verge

Copilot on Windows can now create Office documents and connect to Gmail

You can create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from the Copilot chat interface. You can create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from the Copilot chat interface. is a senior editor and author of ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft Ends Local Account Workarounds in Latest Windows 11 Build

Microsoft's latest Insider Preview, Build 26220.6772, introduces a significant policy change: removal of known workarounds to skip Microsoft Account setup during Windows 11 installation (OOBE).
Rutland Herald

Roundup: Devils erase deficit, top LTS

POULTNEY — The Poultney girls soccer team pushed its record above the .500 mark with a gutsy 3-2 win against Long Trail School on Tuesday. The Blue Devils trailed 2-0 at the half, but took over after ...
NBC Montana

1 dead in crash near Paradise

MISSOULA, Mont. — A 31-year-old from St. Regis was killed Monday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash on Montana Highway 135 near Paradise, according to the Montana Highway Patrol. The crash occurred ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Hiker dies in Pisgah State Park

HINSDALE, N.H. — At approximately noon on Thursday, New Hampshire Fish and Game was notified by New Hampshire State Police Dispatch about a hiker on the Kilburn Trail in the town of Hinsdale that had ...
Post and Courier

SC Attorney General Alan Wilson says local hate crime ordinances could be unconstitutional

COLUMBIA — Attorney General Alan Wilson says local hate crime ordinances may run afoul of the state’s constitution, and that South Carolina’s Supreme Court could strike them down if challenged. The ...
Davis Enterprise

Trial begins in former Yolo Food Bank director's wrongful-termination case

WOODLAND — More than three years after the abrupt firing of Michael Bisch as executive director of the Yolo Food Bank, his wrongful-termination lawsuit went to trial this week in Yolo Superior Court.
Wall Street Journal

To Find Workers, Hospitals Are Training Teenagers

Like many rural hospitals, the Tennessee-based health system struggles to recruit workers, forcing it to pay traveling nurses tens of millions of dollars every year to fill the gaps.