Do you use a local account or MS account on your main PC?

[lexluthermiester]

Trust me when I say, Google is worse, far worse than Microsoft.

No, they're not. Google is known for standing up for user rights. Conversely, microsoft has a habit of caving to government pressures. Sorry man, but you got that backwards.

Android is essentially Google's spy OS.

As someone who devs on the Android platform, I can safely tell you that is not true.

 

[trparky]

No, they're not. Google is known for standing up for user rights.

Oh, how cute.

Google monetizes every damn little thing you do. Everything from what you search for, what emails you get in GMail, etc. If you want any semblance of privacy while searching the Internet, use DuckDuckGo;
NOT GOOGLE!!!

 

[95Viper]

Let's reel it in people.
Stay on topic.
If you wish to discuss other topics, start a thread in the appropriate section.
Thank You.

 

[Chrispy_]

A local account does not prevent me from using any Microsoft Services.

A Microsoft account absolutely does prevent me from having any real control of my user account. Like, I'm not even talking about all the privacy and telemetry BS microsoft pulls, just basic autonomy of your own user account is a going concern for the one device I use at work with a Microsoft Account. Somewhere buried in the small print when creating a Microsoft account you "agree" to let Microsoft install whatever the hell they want onto your PC without your consent, use you as an unknowing beta-tester of their new windows features, and advertise at you in the form of "tips", "hints", or "news"....

 

[lexluthermiester]

A local account does not prevent me from using any Microsoft Services.

This, and...

A Microsoft account absolutely does prevent me from having any real control of my user account.

...this. Can be a real problem.

 

[Chrispy_]

Local account with MS account added after, because 365.

IMO this is the best way. All the benefits of both with the drawbacks of neither.

One of my many hats is MS Tenant admin/Enterprise Admin for a couple of firms. I've watched the mess Microsoft have made-and-mostly-cleaned-up as they tried 50 ways from Sunday to reach a viable way of dealing with the shift to "cloud". To date, I can see (have seen, have fixed, have made group policies to block) bad things caused by MS accounts for login, and have yet to miss out on anything by using local accounts - If you can call a hybrid on-prem/AzureAD accounts "local".

Microsoft will not ever cripple local accounts as long as they're selling Windows Server with local domain controller roles. Those are paying enterprise customers who make up the overwhelming majority of Microsoft's customers by revenue. Most of them are Office365 and AzureAD subscribers too. If they piss off those customers too much, Microsoft is done, because the customers like me who buy thousands of CALs, O365 users, and deal with account admin are experienced enough to know that MS are no longer the only game in town. We stick with Microsoft because it's easy and convenient, not because it's good.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

IMO this is the best way. All the benefits of both with the drawbacks of neither.

Signed in to Store as well, so I can grab free games from Amazon...

 

[robwinxp]

I have embraced the Microsoft-ity of windows being a service instead of my software