Microsoft may be cracking down on using local accounts, but there's still a workaround or two to avoid logging in to a Microsoft account.

New phones, tablets and laptops are always shimmying onto store shelves, and people are often happy to fill those devices with data they’ve stored in the cloud. That usually includes me. Fetching ...

There's more than one way to use Windows now. As well as sitting down in front of a locally installed copy of Windows, running on a hard drive inside your desktop or laptop, you can also fire up the ...

Microsoft has long been pushing Office and OneDrive users to save their documents to the cloud by default. Now, the company is getting even more aggressive with a feature coming to Microsoft Word.

Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager. Go to the Startup Apps tab. Find Microsoft OneDrive. Right-click and select Disable. Next, go to Processes and end any OneDrive.exe tasks. Press Windows ...

When it comes to your important data, you should always have a backup. And then a backup of that backup. Cloud storage services shouldn't be your whole strategy here, but they can help with that.