WHY is the windows store FORCING me.....

by micHawk Apr 30, 2014 8:17PM PDT

....to use my hotmail account to log in to windows?!?!?!??! WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA!?

BEFORE I go into a rant about how STUPID this is and how ******** Windows 8 has become, HOW DO I JUST CHANGE THIS BACK?!?!?!

I went to download an app, which I've done before without any hassle, and it asks me to put my hotmail address in and from now on ill have to log in with it forever and have all my crap on display. I DO NOT WANT THAT. HOW DO I CHANGE IT BACK!?

I ran into this problem before and was able to change it back to a local account, but that ****** my computer up and locked my local account up WITHOUT admin rights and I had to restore the whole ******* thing. I DO NOT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN AGAIN.

WHY IS MICROSOFT SO ********!??!!?!?!?!?!

ALL I want to do is change my computer back to a local account, without my email and facebook **** on the screen for everyone to see. without having to give my email password to someone who wants to just use my computer for a minute. I would rather them NOT have access to my whole ******* life.

where do i change this?!? Microsoft has made things SOOOOOO ******* confusing, cumbersome and anti-user friendly. THey literally want to piss off their customers.

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edit

by micHawk Apr 30, 2014 8:22PM PDT

correction: windows 8.1 - cannot find edit button on this forum

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Re: local account

by Kees_B Forum moderator Apr 30, 2014 9:05PM PDT

Yes, to go to the Windows store you need to logon with your Microsoft account. But you should be able to add local accounts for everyday use in Control Panel, unless something is messed up by what you did.

Even easier: Windows 8.1 still has the guest account for visitors: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/35326-guest-account-turn-off-windows-8-a.html. So there is no need at all to give them your Microsoft account password. That has been the case since Windows XP at least: a guest account for guests so they didn't need to know the Windows password of your own account. Some people didn't use it,but I never understood why they didn't.

Kees

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All stores need an account because

by orlbuckeye Apr 30, 2014 9:27PM PDT

all stuff isn't free. Itunes store needs and account , Google Play store needs and account. It also uses your account to sync also.

It's not just your email account it your microsoft account. You can create local accounts where the user doesn't access your account.

It's a security feature.

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Microsoft and the NSA

by James Denison Apr 30, 2014 11:32PM PDT

just share your information and privacy with them and quit fighting it, if you use windows.
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Ever hear of SELinux?

by Jimmy Greystone May 1, 2014 9:34AM PDT

Ever hear of SELinux? Guess who created it. It's an agency with three letters in it's name... The first is "N" the last is "A". If you think the NSA hasn't been over every single line of code in the Linux kernel, and major supporting programs, looking for ways to exploit it you deserve what is coming. I think the Heartbleed incident of very recent history has shown that the source code simply being available for anyone to view isn't enough.

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There are various govts

by James Denison May 1, 2014 5:43PM PDT

involved in creations of their own versions of Linux software. That's no secret. The Chinese, the Greeks have a school version, Munich Germany has a city version and there's others. Even the US Army uses Linux.

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Also

by Jimmy Greystone May 1, 2014 9:38AM PDT

Also, no company like Apple, Microsoft, or anyone else, is going to willingly cooperate with the NSA. Seriously. They might be shielded by the US government from any kind of lawsuits, maybe even in the EU, but every single one of their customers who isn't interested in having just anyone be able to get into their files would immediately start drawing up plans to shift the business to something like Linux. The only two products really keeping MS afloat are Windows and Office and that customer base would evaporate very quickly if they were shown to be cooperating with the NSA.

So, I know you were being facetious and all that, but plenty of people would think you're serious sadly.

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(NT) How about RSA?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator May 1, 2014 12:42PM PDT

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Oh no, say it isn't so!

by James Denison May 1, 2014 5:42PM PDT

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/microsoft-windows-crash-reporting-system-nsa-passive-spying-report/

From Prism to Prison?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data

"• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;

• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;

• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;

• Microsoft also worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Unit to "understand" potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;

• In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism;

• Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport".

The latest NSA revelations further expose the tensions between Silicon Valley and the Obama administration. All the major tech firms are lobbying the government to allow them to disclose more fully the extent and nature of their co-operation with the NSA to meet their customers' privacy concerns. Privately, tech executives are at pains to distance themselves from claims of collaboration and teamwork given by the NSA documents, and insist the process is driven by legal compulsion."

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The Guardian isn't exactly

by Jimmy Greystone May 1, 2014 11:31PM PDT

The Guardian isn't exactly a great source to be referencing. It's like taking everything you see on Fox News or MSNBC opinion shows as gospel. If it were one of many sources, which weren't all relying on the same base material, that would be one thing, but you're referencing a paper that is widely seen as being quite a bit left of British politics and what the Brits would call conservative is what we Yanks would call liberal.

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