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Microsoft is cracking down on local accounts, but here's how you can still make one

Using local accounts instead of a linked Microsoft Account was once a surefire way to avoid some of the Windows bloatware and ...
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Want to use local accounts? Just switch to Linux

Microsoft really doesn't want you making local accounts. For the company, local accounts do nothing for it. Local accounts ...
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Microsoft Azure cloud service hit with outage; users may not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft

Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to ...

5 cool features and useful changes Microsoft added to Windows 11 in October 2025

October 2025 is now behind us, so let's take a look at some useful changes that Windows 11 received in the last month.

Microsoft deploys a fix to Azure cloud service that's hit with outage

Microsoft has deployed a fix to address an outage of its Azure cloud portal that left users unable to access Office 365, ...
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Bill Gates says climate change won't bring ‘humanity's demise’, Trump declares victory over climate ‘hoax’

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed victory Wednesday over what he called the “hoax” of climate change, after billionaire ...

Big Microsoft Office price increases in South Africa

Microsoft 365, formerly Office 365, includes the widely used Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook applications. In South ...

Opinion - The internet’s dirty secret: streaming is killing the planet

The world of streaming media exists in a realm of weightlessness. We hit play and content appears, powered by the invisible ...

Windows Hello has become an important part of how I use my PC

That explains why so many machines are still on Windows 10, despite a looming support shutdown and the availability of free upgrades to Windows 11. I'm not in that camp. While I do need to be ...

YouTube removes Windows 11 Microsoft account bypass video citing a community guideline violation with potential to cause serious physical harm or death — "I don'…

It seems a Windows 11 video demonstrating how to bypass installing the OS without a Microsoft account violates YouTube's ...

A YouTuber claims they've had two Windows 11 local account and hardware bypass videos taken down because of supposedly 'harmful or dangerous content'

YouTuber CyberCPU Tech has recently shared that they've had two videos removed in two days (via Tom's Hardware). Both of ...
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Fix: Restart Office to Apply Changes to Your Privacy Settings

The “Restart Office to apply changes to your privacy settings” message appears in Microsoft Office applications when a user ...