Windows

I have a desktop and laptop with Windows 10. I see ways of setting up Windows 11 with local account only.

Is it possible to do that for an upgrade or will it force Microsoft account?

LMAO at the comment, "I hope people start calling it "black death""

Anyone else in IT, or I guess other fields since windows is so widespread, experience a bug on the Outlook app where a jpeg logo in someone's signature has been altered to a similar photo?

Today I had a client show me an email on his phone, he sent it, it displayed a logo for another real estate company, but not his. This was only visible on the app, not on his PC, and anyone else receiving the email saw the correct photo.

Solution was to uninstall the app (and delete it's data) and reinstall it.

What I think happened is some kind of AI spillage. It's the only thing that makes any sense, especially because of the similarity between the photos, both being real estate companies. Another person within this same company has the bug too, same way, but a separate photo of yet another real estate company. It's also worth noting that the link that sits under the photo was still correctly linking to the correct company although it showed another companies logo.

Anyone else have an explanation of what it could be?

This very well could be proof that they do in fact have zero control over what Copilot is referencing/doing in certain scenarios and could be problematic for people that work in law firms, hospitals, security, etc.

Windows 10 users will have the option to continue receiving security updates for free beyond October 2025, so long as they sync their PC settings data with the cloud via a Microsoft Account.

I would like to do the following on my windows (10 or 11) computer:

• Move photos from an SD card into a mounted veracrypt volume.
• Edit photos inside the veracrypt volume using RawTherapee.
• View the edited photos inside the veracrypt volume.

I would like that whenever I unmount the veracrypt volume, there is no trace of the photo files left on the computer.

I already noticed that the "recent files" feature of windows explorer stores the path name and a thumbnail of a picture that was opened with photo viewer for example. That is not good.

Are there other pitfalls like this I need to watch out for?

There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.

Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.

I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.

It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.

However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.