[beervirus]

Who in the world wants an OS-as-a-service that exists to connect you to the Microsoft cloud? I want an OS that runs locally and without telemetry, handles hardware abstraction, and allows me to run applications. Windows 7 was pretty good at that. Everything since has been a step in the wrong direction.

[navbaker]

Maybe I have a different use case, but I feel like Windows 10 is mostly ok about this. I actually like being able to just log in to my Microsoft account in order to bypass having to find where I put the authorization key. Once the OS is authorized, then I just turn off all the telemetry/cloud services/etc. and it runs smoothly and without fuss. I don't think there's any requirement for it to be online in order to function other than update downloads. I might be overlooking something, though.

Edit to clarify that I do not have to use Teams, thank goodness. That garbage is awful.

[hobs]

Yeah, I use windows and work in the microsoft ecosystem professionally but literally everything about w11 turns me off of it.

[hulitu]

Managers who want to save some money with the IT department. Outsourcing. And then the ransomware comes...