[stevehawk]

it's worse than that.. if you spam alt+f4 or wait long enough it will eventually let you install without an MS account

[lnxg33k1]

Oh thank you very much for the information kind stranger

[jzombie]

Press Shift + F10 to launch the command prompt then type in 'OOBE\BYPASSNRO' and press Enter. The system will reboot and you can proceed without a MS account.

I did this a couple of times lately on a bare metal install as well as in a VM.