Image description: Elon Musk & X @elonmusk ā¢ 42m Just bought a new PC laptop and it wonāt let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their Al access to my computer! This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account. Are you seeing this too? This is not cool of Microsoft.
(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-25)
This sort of happened to me at work. We got a new laptop amidst a massive time crunch, and didnāt configure anything before installing our instrumentās software and getting to work. At the time, we didnt have a paid 365 account or anything, so we were just saving data in folders on the desktop at first. A couple months later, all the files, folders and launchers on the desktop disappeared, replaced by a single icon called āwhere are my filesā. It was a web link that directed us to buy 365 or else lose all our filesā¦that we thought we were saving LOCALLY.
