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Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account
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this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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I don't know why it was so easy for you, but the last four Windows 11 machines I set up over the last two years definitely required increasingly complicated hacks just to not create an online account.