[microtonal]

That's false:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13951/windows-creat...

(I had a Windows 8 VM for compiling some software and used a local account.)

[daemin]

OK, I stand corrected. I recall that I had to use a Live account for a preview version of Windows 8 I installed on a test machine. Maybe my memory is off, I hadn't used it in ages.