Microsoft, I'm not going to set up a microsoft account just so that I can log into this machine!
You don't need to have a Microsoft account, whatever they tell you. Mine has no startup password, and there is no MS account on it. I too got duped into thinknig you had to, but you don't, but they make it as un-obvious as possible to find this. On the (very) rare occasions I use Skype, its a separate "desktop" version, not the bloody "app" and I share Mr L's desire to get rid of all the useless apps and use "proper program(me)s" When a stupid app pops up, Mr L, just do it the old fashioned way, alt-F4 gets rid of it! Alt-F4 is also my default method of closing down Win 8.1, rather than farting about with their silly shut down structure. Alt-f4, enter, is all thats needed.
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I managed to set it up without one, but to add to the rant.....
Microchuffingsoftinthebrain. When on my windows 8.1 machine I go to add a new user account, and I tell you "no thanks, I do not wish to connect this account with a microsoft online account", please don't fucking patronise me and tell me why I should. I have been dealing with this shit for long enough to know better. Why don't you just have a check box that asks "do you have a clue?", obviously no help should be provided on that.
And whilst on the subject.... this machine is so vastly overpowered in every respect that it's certainly smarter than me, it's capable of disk throughput that would have had the NSA and GCHQ wetting their drawers about not too many years ago, but when I had got past the patronising attitude and tablet interface and windows started to add the user account, why did it take getting on for 15 minutes? 15 minutes of being shown "useful" messages and pretty screens? 15 seconds is more than it required.
And another rant at microsoft windows.... I can think of about 8 major versions of windows ove r the last 20+ years, in that time the hardware has grown such that an original PC compatible probably wouldn't have sufficient power to run a modern USB port, but still windows is welded to the paradigm of drive letters. But worse than that. Much worse, it still wants all user accounts to live with all their files in drive C.
After such ranting, I must add an anti-rant. Something I've found that Windows 8 does do - you can right click on an iso image and mount it as a drive. *rant* about bloody time!
