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strong arm takeover of my hardware should be illegal!
I'm sorry what is the difference? I don't use microsoft for ANYTHING besides the operating system of MY COMPUTER. I have already paid them for the OS on my PC. I recently upgraded to 10 from 8 (sensationally unusable) which was forced on me due to purchasing a new laptop. I was happy to hear that Win 10 was an improvement over 8 (almost back to superior Win 7) but no mention if this password takeover of MY PC.
When I tried to login this morning much to my surprise my password didn't work! WTF? This is total BS from Microsoft. I use MY PC for mostly standalone work. IMAGES and TEXT. If I choose to get online that is my business, not microsofts! I use a flakey wifi and today I actually have to leave my home and go over to a friends house to use there PC just to be able to reset the @$&H& password so I could get past the login screen on MY PC! WTF!!!!. Sure you can google answers and spend hours looking around at all the different comments and workarounds including password hack programs that make this all completely irrelevant anyway but of course assuming YOU HAVE CONNECTIVITY AND AREN'T LOCKED OUT! (sorry not using my limited data plan and tiny screen to solve the problem you inflicted on me!)
How incredibly STUPID this is and TOTALLY UNDERHANDED as it was never even brought to my attention during the upgrade.
This is the equivalent of Samsung requiring me to create a samsung account and login to their network (that I would never use) just to be able to watch TV!!! THIS IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. How can I cut the cord to microsoft for my laptop? I want nothing to do with them after this and I RESENT Microsoft for doing this to MY HARDWARE.
I feel a class action lawsuit should be filed against them for screwing with peoples PC's without their authorization and wasting peoples time. I don't trust Microsoft with my system password to my PC and I want to remove all of my accounts with them. I had created an account YEARS ago when forced to to access MSDN. This is the last straw. I will never buy another microsoft product! I can't even imagine how pervasive this will be on numerous peoples systems I provide support to that are using older PC's. Is big brother microsoft going to change my admin logins to all my family members pc's too? TOTALLY DISGUSTED with this strong arm takeover of my hardware!!!