17 Dec 2012, 8:17 am
Just been greeted by it and already not a fan once it asks me to use a Microsoft account. I put one of mine in and then am required to add a phone number/other email/security question. While I don't have a problem with the other email or question, I do have a problem with putting my phone number in. Whether or not they ever do ring you if your account is hacked or whatever, I don'tlike the idea of people knowing my number. Is there any way to not have my Microsoft account as my main user on this or am I stuck with it? As for the phone number part, I put in random numbers so I could carry on installing so my hotmail account seems hack worthy now if that's someone's actual number. I'm really not liking Windows 8 at all >:l
I'd also like to add that I don't like my email being shown on other devices. Like my xbox picked the laptop up as Username - ***********@hotmail.com
I don't want people knowing it unless I want them to. Is there any way at all to stop that happening?
I also don't wanna bd told to just put up with it or anything like that. To me it feels my privacy is being spread around without my consent. Why couldn't MS just keep the traditional way 
It's really irritating.
17 Dec 2012, 9:42 am
It's really irritating.Windows is a commodity, and there is no growth in commodity computing. Any computer in the past few years is more than powerful enough for anything most people want to do, so computer replacements are slowing. MS has to look elsewhere to get revenues.
Microsoft is trying to use its desktop monopoly to drive traffic to its web sites, and make them more valuable to advertisers. They are invading your privacy. It's possible to use Win8 without an MS account (none of the "metro" apps work that come with Win8), but difficult. The average user has just been added to an MS sucker list, much like people who get "rewards" cards at stores are added to sucker lists that are sold to credit card companies. They probably also work for an employee service organization instead of their own company, which is business-talk for a giant sucker list for upselling insurance and other stuff.
Yes, the decline and fall of Western civilization will be traced to the point where people are more valuable on sucker lists than they are as customers.
17 Dec 2012, 12:32 pm
Can't you just create a random email address used only for that one purpose? Don't know about the phone number though. 
17 Dec 2012, 1:56 pm
I'd also like to add that I don't like my email being shown on other devices. Like my xbox picked the laptop up as Username - ***********@hotmail.com
I don't want people knowing it unless I want them to. Is there any way at all to stop that happening?
I also don't wanna bd told to just put up with it or anything like that. To me it feels my privacy is being spread around without my consent. Why couldn't MS just keep the traditional way
It's really irritating.I think my husband uses google voice to generate a number that will feed to his phone, just like a regular number would. But, of course, he can cancel it at any time. I think I've understood that right.
18 Dec 2012, 11:36 am
I'd also like to add that I don't like my email being shown on other devices. Like my xbox picked the laptop up as Username - ***********@hotmail.com
I don't want people knowing it unless I want them to. Is there any way at all to stop that happening?
I also don't wanna bd told to just put up with it or anything like that. To me it feels my privacy is being spread around without my consent. Why couldn't MS just keep the traditional way
It's really irritating.You dont have to give win 8 your info. Theres an option to not use an MS account during the install and in the OS setup options.
Win 8 is MS's attempt at becoming like Apple. They're copying their 'Store' concept, their 'Apps' concept and other crap like that.
As an OS its rock solid I will give them kudos for that. Performs exponentially better than XP.
Just avoid using MS account and first thing to do after installing Win8 is to disable the Store option (google the setup/registry changes to do this). Once you do that, you're running Windows as an OS and not as a portal for MS to suck your wallet.
Also, make sure to take advantage of the free Media Pack upgrade available until mid december.
18 Dec 2012, 1:39 pm
I'd also like to add that I don't like my email being shown on other devices. Like my xbox picked the laptop up as Username - ***********@hotmail.com
I don't want people knowing it unless I want them to. Is there any way at all to stop that happening?
I also don't wanna bd told to just put up with it or anything like that. To me it feels my privacy is being spread around without my consent. Why couldn't MS just keep the traditional way
It's really irritating.You dont have to give win 8 your info. Theres an option to not use an MS account during the install and in the OS setup options.
Win 8 is MS's attempt at becoming like Apple. They're copying their 'Store' concept, their 'Apps' concept and other crap like that.
As an OS its rock solid I will give them kudos for that. Performs exponentially better than XP.
Just avoid using MS account and first thing to do after installing Win8 is to disable the Store option (google the setup/registry changes to do this). Once you do that, you're running Windows as an OS and not as a portal for MS to suck your wallet.
Also, make sure to take advantage of the free Media Pack upgrade available until mid december.
My Gentoo Stage 1 install doesnt require an email account or store information.
In all seriousness, Having had played with a Surface tablet I found the interface to be clunky and not intuitiive. It was confusing, and hard to navigate. And the shoppe keeper who was assisting me with it didnt know any of the answers to the questions I had.
I found the hardware itself to be very cheap looking and feeling (plastic casing that didnt look terribly nice). This admist the issues that have gone around about the tablets cover.
As to how well Windows 8 performs, I cannot say, I have no further interest in it after having played with a Surface. If the Windows 8 interface is the same on a Surface, as it is on a PC, then Ill never touch it.
19 Dec 2012, 7:34 am
After having it a few days I reset it so it wiped my other info off it and then put in a 'local account' That was fine until I wanted something I'd seen in the store. Brand new account like someone suggested, but still not find of that. I don't like how Windows are trying to be more like Apple. One thing I said to my friend yesterday is how this is basically just a phone. Now a lot less paranoid I can get into it more. I hate the switching between the apps screen and the desktop and then any apps/progs you have running. You hover and try to switch and the thing disappears 
It feels so fiddly and more time consuming than before. Right now I'm hoping issues with wacom tablets is sorted. I try drawing on iSketch and all I manage is a dot before it stops working, using the touchpad makes it continue drawing. It was like it with photoshop too until a restart. Whole thing feels like a step back imo. I hate the way technology is going with all these tiles and apps and touch this swipe that bs.
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