{"id":13332,"date":"2020-02-25T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=13332"},"modified":"2020-02-24T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:28:08","slug":"forced-microsoft-account-also-in-windows-10-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/02\/25\/forced-microsoft-account-also-in-windows-10-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced Microsoft Account also in Windows 10 Pro?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/win102.jpg\" width=\"58\" align=\"left\" height=\"58\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/microsoft-kontenzwang-auch-fr-windows-10-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]I have to bring the subject up again and ask it as a question: When reinstalling Windows 10 Pro, did any of you notice that only a Microsoft account (and no offline account) can be created there?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vg02.met.vgwort.de\/na\/fba40fd190a44d8b94d963cf9d5aad61\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">Last week I took up a hint from Dr. Windows that an offline account can no longer be created when reinstalling Windows 10 Home (versions 1903 and 1909) \u2013 see my blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/02\/20\/windows-10-forced-microsoft-account-also-in-germany\/\">Windows 10: Forced Microsoft Account also in Germany<\/a>. During setup a Windows 10 Home systems, users can only create a Microsoft account. After the OOBE phase, users are able to remove the Microsoft account and switch to a local (offline) account. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Only if a machine doesn't have Internet access, the option to create a new offline account is available.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We have tested it multiple times, the behavior outlined above is only available in Windows 10 Home (versions 1903 and 1909). German blog reader Sherlock confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/20\/windows-10-ms-kontenzwang-auch-in-deutschland\/#comment-85572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">within this German comment<\/a>. Later I wrote also an article for German IT site heise (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/Microsoft-Kontenzwang-bei-der-Installation-auch-fuer-Windows-10-in-Deutschland-4665953.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft-Kontenzwang bei der Installation auch f\u00fcr Windows 10 in Deutschland<\/a>). For this articles also the editors at heise tested some installations in virtual machines. Conclusion was also: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The build number of the installation image of Windows 10 version 1909 made no difference (the sub-builds .418 and .592 were tested) &#8211; which indicates that Microsoft has changed something on the server side.\n<li>Windows 10 Home forces a Microsoft account during setup, while Windows 10 Pro setup offers a choice between Microsoft and an offline account in the OOBE setup phase.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But shortly after I published my German blog post and also the heise article, I received feedback from German readers, reporting, that Windows 10 Pro has the same behavior. The comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/20\/windows-10-ms-kontenzwang-auch-in-deutschland\/#comment-85581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here,<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heise.de\/forum\/heise-online\/News-Kommentare\/Microsoft-Kontenzwang-bei-der-Installation-auch-fuer-Windows-10-in-Deutschland\/Windows-10-Pro-auch-betroffen\/thread-6284621\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heise.de\/forum\/heise-online\/News-Kommentare\/Microsoft-Kontenzwang-bei-der-Installation-auch-fuer-Windows-10-in-Deutschland\/Auch-bei-Pro-Version\/thread-6283497\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> saying, they observed the same, Windows 10 Pro forced users to create a Microsoft account during OOBE phase. So my question: Has anyone else noticed this? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]I have to bring the subject up again and ask it as a question: When reinstalling Windows 10 Pro, did any of you notice that only a Microsoft account (and no offline account) can be created there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2290,1183,329],"class_list":["post-13332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-microsoft-account","tag-setup","tag-windows-10-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}