Re: Windows 10 Release

[Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com>]

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
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Justin Mckillican <justin () 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 <khelms () 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
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> >
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Matthew Black <Matthew.Black () 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