Ditch Your Microsoft Account on Win 10

WHEN YOU FIRST CREATE AN ACCOUNT ON WINDOWS 10, Microsoft would prefer you to use an online Microsoft account that you can use to access all its other services, such as Mixer, Outlook, Skype, and more. But there may be times when you don’t want to use this account and would prefer to keep everything on your computer. In times like that, you need to use a local account instead.

This has a couple of benefits. For one thing, it means you can still get going even if you don’t already have a Microsoft account—particularly useful if you’re setting the account up for someone else and don’t know their Microsoft account details.