[britneybitch]

> Connecting with Microsoft accounts is only useful to enable Windows Hello. Otherwise, use local accounts only.

I have a Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 and a local-only account, and I log in with Windows Hello. Is that unusual or deprecated in Windows 11 or something?

[neogodless]

Do you use a security key?

It seems like you need a Microsoft Account otherwise.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sign-in-to-your-...

[Godel_unicode]

For Windows 10 that’s absolutely not the case, you can use any Windows Hello method you want with a local account. Most of that article is talking about security keys because they are more involved than Hello.

[britneybitch]

No security key, just my face. That link also seems to say it can be used without an online account. Hence my question.