Dynamite News Elon Musk slams Microsoft about windows 11's account registeration
Elon Musk dropped a complaint about his new laptop, which he said required him to register a Microsoft account to use it. Read further on Dynamite News:
Los Angeles: Elon Musk dropped a complaint about his new laptop, which he said required him to register a Microsoft account to use it.
"Just bought a new PC laptop and it won't let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their AI access to my computer!" wrote Musk. "This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account."
Soon, however, a Community Note was added to the post, stating that he was incorrect. The Community Notes feature on X is a fact-checking tool that allows authors to give context to potentially misleading posts.
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"It is still possible to set up the latest version of Windows without a Microsoft account," read the note.
Community Notes is intended to operate through crowdsourcing. Anyone who has been using X for more than six months has not recently broken its rules and has a verified phone number is eligible to participate in the programme as a contributor.
On Sunday, Elon Musk was less impressed with his own Community Notes on X, as per Mashable.
"Community Notes is failing here," he wrote in a reply to his original post. "This option no longer exists." Amusingly, Musk's response has now received another Community Note.
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Musk also highlighted concerns about the potential access this offers to Microsoft's AI in an X post, questioning the account's requirement for fundamental operations.
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He also indicated that Microsoft can turn off your computer, writing, "But since they now require that you use their services just to use your computer, @Microsoft can effectively shut off your computer!" (ANI)