Ridiculous installation requirement

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  1. Posts : 7,724
    3-Win-7Prox64 3-Win10Prox64 3-LinuxMint20.2
       #151

    Well in beta testing it is allowed to be overly pushing using a Microsoft account,
    I would hope this push to use or create one would be lowered and showing Local account the same as 8 does which a recent re-install of 8 reminded me of that fact the 8 install process is more balanced.

    Balance is less confusing for people coming from prior os's excluding 8 of course because allot of people purely rejected it.
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  2. whs
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    Windows 7
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       #152

    BunnyJ said:
    For me at least this is all about having a Hotmail account and using it to lo-gin to Win10. Up till now I've not had a single issue with this procedure. This is far from a big brother issue. You sign up for Hotmail and that's it. You don't have to use it after that.

    Jeff
    I don't think you need a hotmail account. I never had on and work with my AOL account.
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  3. Posts : 11,247
    Windows / Linux : Arch Linux
       #153

    Hi there
    If you are a PRO obviously you need the correct tools for the job. All I was saying is that there are some very good free / opensource products out there that can do an excellent job if you don't need the full Pro features.

    As for servers I was alluding more to things like commercial server farms rather than web sites running IIS or equivalent. Most ISP's for example run Linux.

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  4. Posts : 298
    W 7 desktop Home Premium 64 - OS
       #154

    I have had sites and I don't remember which that I could not register in because I didn't have and would not do hotmail. I have 3 accounts with my server that I route through my PC. Have been there, done that with online emails.
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  5.    #155

    BunnyJ said:
    ...You sign up for Hotmail and that's it...
    Jeff
    It's not necessarily that easy. I can't sign up for an account because I refuse to enable all my cookies like M$ insists I do (I believe I've already mentioned this earlier).
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  6. Posts : 7,724
    3-Win-7Prox64 3-Win10Prox64 3-LinuxMint20.2
       #156

    Yes Lady.. you have but it needs to be reiterated when it applies,
    Not to mention Personal preferences must be recognized by members and Microsoft as different stokes for different folks
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  7. Posts : 3,257
    Windows 10 Pro
       #157

    Lady Fitzgerald said:
    BunnyJ said:
    ...You sign up for Hotmail and that's it...
    Jeff
    It's not necessarily that easy. I can't sign up for an account because I refuse to enable all my cookies like M$ insists I do (I believe I've already mentioned this earlier).
    And, as I've also mentioned, it's pretty easy to enable them to register, then disable them after you are registered. You only need the full cookies for registration. You can delete them after that.
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  8. Posts : 3,502
    Win_8.1-Pro, Win_10.1607-Pro, Mint_17.3
       #158

    Mystere said:
    Uhh... Computers running Windows of course.
    Uhh ... Saying Computers running Windows is different from saying Windows Hardware.
    I'll accept it as shorthand, but I'll never use the phrase

    Windows Hardware -> Surface RT, Windows Phone

    IBM Servers -> hardware
    HP Servers -> hardware

    Mystere said:
    You may not know this, but GIMP destroys the quality of your original images if they are high quality (32 bit). Up until version 2.8, GIMP only supported 8 bit internal graphics processing and 2.8 only supports 16 bit. Professionals use 32 bit RAW images and if you read these images into GIMP they are automatically re-scaled to 16 bit color depths, destroying their original quality......
    Yes I know that.
    Thanks for posting the information - other members might not have been aware.
    It 's one of the advantages of being old and retired (I'm semi-retied). You don't worry about those things much - my children and grandchildren can worry about the quality of graphics editors. They have all the top notch photography equipment and they usually work in RAW.

    Mystere said:
    As for capable image editing in Windows with far better interfaces, here's a quick list off the top of my head:

    Paint Shop Pro (always been a favorite)
    Corel Draw
    Xara Photo and Graphic Designer
    PhotoImpact Pro (another favorite)
    Corel Painter
    Three Corel pkgs - isn't there also a Corel Draw Essentials (maybe that's Painter now). I often thought about trying it, but that kept getting put on the back burner.

    Thanks for the list I also used Paintshop Pro (PSP) 4 & 5 and it was my favorite. I lost the disc and the key during a move and crash (two separate events). Those were old version anyway, not worth the trouble to try and find the key in a backup.

    I settled on Gimp until I decide to put out cash for a new version of PSP. I'll probably just take the original image to one of the children and say - do your magic.

    Bill
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  9. Posts : 3,502
    Win_8.1-Pro, Win_10.1607-Pro, Mint_17.3
       #159

    ThrashZone said:
    I can't say any of this photo editing stuff has anything to do with the thread here :/

    On the topic of the thread I also can't say the install for a local account got any easier for someone to find,
    With the second install options page no scroll bar is shown and the option is out of sight

    Windows 8 has a more clear install for a local account than 10 and that is just wrong and hopefully that process will be more obvious in the final release,
    Cheers.
    Is this the January release Mike?

    With the second install options page no scroll bar is shown and the option is out of sight
    That's not good.
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  10. Posts : 7,724
    3-Win-7Prox64 3-Win10Prox64 3-LinuxMint20.2
       #160

    Yes it is,
    The scroll bar does not appear unless you happen to move the mouse over it,
    Of course the back... is below it so that doesn't make it appear either,
    Hiding it to somewhat force making a Microsoft account because that is all that's on the list your information to make a new Microsoft account
    It's really petty.
    I did mention I got a popup after installing Why I didn't make a Microsoft account
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