Justin, That's true, but it takes effort for people to either set up a local account or change to one, and very few consumers will do that or have.
Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -------------------------------- http://twitter.com/kscotthelms -------------------------------- On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Justin Mckillican <jus...@mckill.ca> wrote: > Nope. For the upgrade the only piece of information MSFT needed was your > email if you chose email notification once the upgrade was ready for you. > > After it's installed it will ask to finish up the install the 'Express' > method which enabled a bunch of things like WIFI password sharing to > friends and whatever else or if you chose the manual option like I did you > can disable everything. It will also inherit your existing user settings, > so if your user is a local one instead of a cloud one it will continue to > be that way. > > It does install One Drive but again, if you never configured it or used it > then you'll simply see it in your task bar with the "welcome" or signup > screen. > > > -justin > > > On Jul 30, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Scott Helms <khe...@zcorum.com> wrote: > > > > Since the requirement is that users are upgrading from Win 7, 8, or 8.1 > > they've already had to create at least a minimal MS ID which means either > > creating an email account on Outlook.com or providing an existing email > > address and a password for MS. > > > > > > Scott Helms > > Vice President of Technology > > ZCorum > > (678) 507-5000 > > -------------------------------- > > http://twitter.com/kscotthelms > > -------------------------------- > > > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Matthew Black <matthew.bl...@csulb.edu > > > > wrote: > > > >> Are users required to create any type of Microsoft cloud account (e.g., > >> OneDrive, Office365, et alil) in order to install and use Windows 10? Of > >> Office? Is it possible to simply use Windows 10 without any Microsoft or > >> Google or Yahoo accounts? > >> > >> Is the unique identifier available to advertisers only through IE (or > its > >> successor) OR will it also be available through Firefox/Chrome? > >> > >> > >> matthew black > >> california state university, long beach > >> > >