Microsoft's latest Insider preview effectively closes the easiest doors that let people set up Windows 11 with a purely local account during the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), and for privacy‑minded users the timing is provocative enough to push a real conversation about whether now is the right...
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A Southern California man has filed suit seeking to force Microsoft to keep Windows 10 alive — a high-stakes legal challenge that crystallizes a fraught transition from a decade‑old, battle‑tested operating system to an AI‑first Windows 11 world and raises questions about security, consumer...
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