This article has found fascinating new levels of click-baiting. The title is:
> How Microsoft made it harder to create Windows 10 local accounts
The faded out subtitle is:
> The company eases up a bit with the May 2019 Update, however.
The article then goes on to describe at length how complicated the process used to be, and how evil Microsoft is for how having it so complicated. Then suddenly it ends with a few lines describing how it is much simpler now.
I guess the amount of clicks on the article "How the latest Windows 10 update allows for easier creation of local accounts" would be much lower.
The real question is, why wasn't this article written three months ago? Maybe it was reported at the time, but I certainly never heard about it.
Even now, I think it's more than worthwhile to look at what Microsoft did in version 1809. Completely removing the option to create a local account at setup without disconnecting from the internet is clearly user-hostile. That Microsoft would ship Windows in that state is abhorrent, even if they're fixing it now.
I've set up Windows 10 computers multiple times spanning the past two years or so and making a local account was never hard or complicated. With the ethernet plugged in each time. Strange that what the article shows never happened to me.
>We originally discovered the issue with an October 2018 Update (version 1809) PC. We found similar setup experiences on two different machines by different manufacturers.
Ther is a link to a reference, unless "they" dicovered it and told nobody.
> How Microsoft made it harder to create Windows 10 local accounts
The faded out subtitle is:
> The company eases up a bit with the May 2019 Update, however.
The article then goes on to describe at length how complicated the process used to be, and how evil Microsoft is for how having it so complicated. Then suddenly it ends with a few lines describing how it is much simpler now.
I guess the amount of clicks on the article "How the latest Windows 10 update allows for easier creation of local accounts" would be much lower.