[182711] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Windows 10 Release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brooks Bridges)
Thu Jul 30 10:23:35 2015
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:23:26 -0700
From: Brooks Bridges <brooks@firestormnetworks.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Just as a point of debate, I've been using Windows 7 for quite some time
and I do not, nor have I ever, given MS any email information or have I
created a Live account.
On 7/30/2015 7:19 AM, Scott Helms 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
> --------------------------------
>
> 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
>>
