With the latest insider build for Windows 11, Microsoft is killing off a workaround that let you set up a local account instead of a Microsoft account.

All change for Microsoft. The company has suddenly confirmed a major update “for over 1 billion end users,” as the deletion of passwords for all users becomes real. Your Microsoft password, it warns, “could be easily forgotten or guessed by an attacker,” and it’s now time “to completely remove the password from your account.”

Someone finds a new way to ditch the Microsoft account on Windows 11 . As spotted by Windows Central, user @witherornot1337 on X showed off a new way of dodging around the Windows