I’ll admit it’s not the best, but “huge dealbreaker” seems dramatic.
1. It’s not even a requirement for business/enteprise customers.
2. It remains trivial for technical users to bypass.
3. Literal billions of iPhone and Android users live with a similar soft restriction. Like, yeah, you can skip making an account on those devices, but they’re damn near useless in practice without them.
people have unfortunately accepted that as part of using a phone, but trying to impose it on desktops is a very large change imo. it's part of the general trend of users not truly owning their devices.
Not really? I imagine most Mac users also have their Apple ID logged in for things like iCloud and the Mac App Store, even if they have a lot of manually installed apps.
It’s not really that crazy.
I totally agree that Microsoft shouldn’t explicitly force an account on you as iOS, Android, and macOS don’t do that, but at the same time it’s just not such a crazy idea.
1. It’s not even a requirement for business/enteprise customers.
2. It remains trivial for technical users to bypass.
3. Literal billions of iPhone and Android users live with a similar soft restriction. Like, yeah, you can skip making an account on those devices, but they’re damn near useless in practice without them.