The shift from local-only user accounts in Windows to Microsoft accounts wasn’t great for many reasons, and one of them is that your home folder would always have the same name as your email address.

PCWorld outlines 10 free cybersecurity methods to protect Windows PCs from hackers, including password managers, two-factor authentication, and proper account management. These security practices ...

Windows 11 has a new preview build It cracks down on workarounds to install the OS with a local account This is a continued campaign to force people to use a Microsoft account, and Microsoft argues it ...

Microsoft has previously allowed people running Windows 11 Pro to set up their PCs offline and run local accounts rather than signing in with a Microsoft account, unlike the Home version. Windows 11 ...

A Microsoft account has some advantages, but a local account is fine for Windows 11. Microsoft doesn't make it easy to set up a local account on a new PC. There are workarounds, but they depend on ...

I work in a small company that started with M365, but in a very informal fashion; no MDM policies, etc. I was the only one of two Windows users, and I decided to log in to Windows using the M365 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft is moving to a world where a Windows user will be required to have a Microsoft account, and now the company has taken another step in that ...

Microsoft this week offered a hint that it plans to impose a Microsoft account (MSA) requirement on new installations of the Windows 11 Pro edition. The implied MSA ...

If after you update your Windows 11/10 PC to the latest version/build and the administrator account is missing, you can try our recommended solutions below in no particular order and see what helps ...

After years of complaining online and filing feedback, Outlook users on Windows are finally getting Unified Inbox.

Revolutionary is a big word; it positively effuses import. “Something markedly new or introducing fundamental change” is the definition I like best, and it’s ideally suited to this latest Microsoft ...