This sucks!
You are screwed if/when you upgrade to Windows 11. I want nothing to do with Win11 due to this and all the other online integration with pushing ads and popups, etc.... I only upgraded to Win10 when Steam cut support for Win7.I have a shared laptop on my kitchen counter that I dont want all of my one drive and outlook accounts attached to. it's still running windows 10. am i screwed?
The harm isn't going to come all at once and right up front. Now they have your birthday(hope you didn't give them your real birthday). They mine data from other sources and put together their file on you. Microcrap is taking control of your system slowly. Microcrap wants to force you to upgrade which of course begs the question, if the upgrade is so great then why do they have to force you? Sort of like getting upgraded to a Cyberman. Their end game is charging a ongoing fee to use Windows or they brick your computer.I've always used a local account, but I am wondering what the harm is in using a Microsoft account, and why they push for it. My outlook.com email account has only part of my name: William M, and my birth date. I could even create another with a fake birth date and name if I wanted.
So what information are they actually getting about me? They don't even have my last name.