I installed Windows 11 to a virtual drive in QEMU. When it wanted me to login to a Microsoft account, the trick is to put in a bogus email and password, which will fail. Then it allows you to create a local
account instead.
Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
I installed Windows 11 to a virtual drive in QEMU. When it wanted me to
login to a Microsoft account, the trick is to put in a bogus email and
password, which will fail. Then it allows you to create a local
account instead.
And it turns out that I can install things from the Windows Store without logging in either - you press Install, and it prompts you to login to a MS account. But the app starts downloading anyway, so you can cancel the login and it installs just fine.
Not sure if that's unique to Insider builds, or whether it will work on release versions of Windows 11.
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