Microsoft Account Needed?

Windows 10, 1909 18363.720

Does one need a Microsoft account in order to run apps from the Microsoft
Store? Does it make a difference if the app is free, or pay to play?

Today I was playing around with the Windows 10 Mail (not my mail tool)
and saw the little check mark icon. I clicked it and was taken to the
Microsoft Store to download a "To Do" app. I downloaded it, thinking I
would have to sign up with Microsoft to either download, or install once
downloaded. Nope. It downloaded, and then installed all by itself.

I was asked if I wanted to launch it. I thought that once launched, I
would have to sign up with Microsoft. Rather than launch and find out,
I'm asking the group, how does this work? Would I have to sign up to
use?

(I'm not looking for a To Do list.)

I went to Start, and at the top was the To Do app, and I uninstalled it.

On 31/03/2020 22:55, Boris wrote:
Windows 10, 1909 18363.720

Does one need a Microsoft account in order to run apps from the Microsoft
Store? Does it make a difference if the app is free, or pay to play?

Today I was playing around with the Windows 10 Mail (not my mail tool)
and saw the little check mark icon. I clicked it and was taken to the
Microsoft Store to download a "To Do" app. I downloaded it, thinking I
would have to sign up with Microsoft to either download, or install once
downloaded. Nope. It downloaded, and then installed all by itself.

I was asked if I wanted to launch it. I thought that once launched, I
would have to sign up with Microsoft. Rather than launch and find out,
I'm asking the group, how does this work? Would I have to sign up to
use?

(I'm not looking for a To Do list.)

I went to Start, and at the top was the To Do app, and I uninstalled it.


You don't need a Microsoft Account to download MOST free Apps. The only
requirement is that you need to login as Administrator (or user with
administrator privileges) on your local machine to install these apps.

Enjoy these free apps while you can.Â* Coronavirus is killing people on a
production scale as if funeral directors are running a factory of dead
bodies!!


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With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer
satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

On 2020-03-31 4:55 p.m., Boris wrote:
Windows 10, 1909 18363.720

Does one need a Microsoft account in order to run apps from the Microsoft
Store? Does it make a difference if the app is free, or pay to play?

Today I was playing around with the Windows 10 Mail (not my mail tool)
and saw the little check mark icon. I clicked it and was taken to the
Microsoft Store to download a "To Do" app. I downloaded it, thinking I
would have to sign up with Microsoft to either download, or install once
downloaded. Nope. It downloaded, and then installed all by itself.

I was asked if I wanted to launch it. I thought that once launched, I
would have to sign up with Microsoft. Rather than launch and find out,
I'm asking the group, how does this work? Would I have to sign up to
use?

(I'm not looking for a To Do list.)

I went to Start, and at the top was the To Do app, and I uninstalled it.


You used to need one but something has changed and now you don't, Here
is a good explanation.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3145...l-account.html

Rene

Boris wrote:
Windows 10, 1909 18363.720

Does one need a Microsoft account in order to run apps from the Microsoft
Store? Does it make a difference if the app is free, or pay to play?

Today I was playing around with the Windows 10 Mail (not my mail tool)
and saw the little check mark icon. I clicked it and was taken to the
Microsoft Store to download a "To Do" app. I downloaded it, thinking I
would have to sign up with Microsoft to either download, or install once
downloaded. Nope. It downloaded, and then installed all by itself.

I was asked if I wanted to launch it. I thought that once launched, I
would have to sign up with Microsoft. Rather than launch and find out,
I'm asking the group, how does this work? Would I have to sign up to
use?

(I'm not looking for a To Do list.)

I went to Start, and at the top was the To Do app, and I uninstalled it.

The interfaces will try to deceive you into setting up an account.
However, just "ramming ahead and ignoring details" works wonders.

At runtime, if an App needed Cloud storage for some reason, it
would likely need an MSA at that time. Or some sort of identifier.

Even when Cloud interfaces say "you must do X to get us to do Y",
you do X as they suggest and Y doesn't work, this kind of deceit
is just how these companies work. It's because they have no
tech support phone number, no contact interface, they get
away with this stuff.

Paul

Rene Lamontagne wrote in
:

On 2020-03-31 4:55 p.m., Boris wrote:
Windows 10, 1909 18363.720

Does one need a Microsoft account in order to run apps from the
Microsoft Store? Does it make a difference if the app is free, or
pay to play?

Today I was playing around with the Windows 10 Mail (not my mail
tool) and saw the little check mark icon. I clicked it and was taken
to the Microsoft Store to download a "To Do" app. I downloaded it,
thinking I would have to sign up with Microsoft to either download,
or install once downloaded. Nope. It downloaded, and then installed
all by itself.

I was asked if I wanted to launch it. I thought that once launched,
I would have to sign up with Microsoft. Rather than launch and find
out, I'm asking the group, how does this work? Would I have to sign
up to use?

(I'm not looking for a To Do list.)

I went to Start, and at the top was the To Do app, and I uninstalled
it.


You used to need one but something has changed and now you don't, Here
is a good explanation.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3145...indows-store-a
pps-with-a-local-account.html

Rene

That... is very interesting, because I do remember looking at free stuff
in the store when I first set this laptop up in 2017, and everything
seemed to require a Microsoft account.

Paul wrote in :

Boris wrote:
Windows 10, 1909 18363.720

Does one need a Microsoft account in order to run apps from the
Microsoft Store? Does it make a difference if the app is free, or
pay to play?

Today I was playing around with the Windows 10 Mail (not my mail
tool) and saw the little check mark icon. I clicked it and was taken
to the Microsoft Store to download a "To Do" app. I downloaded it,
thinking I would have to sign up with Microsoft to either download,
or install once downloaded. Nope. It downloaded, and then installed
all by itself.

I was asked if I wanted to launch it. I thought that once launched,
I would have to sign up with Microsoft. Rather than launch and find
out, I'm asking the group, how does this work? Would I have to sign
up to use?

(I'm not looking for a To Do list.)

I went to Start, and at the top was the To Do app, and I uninstalled
it.

The interfaces will try to deceive you into setting up an account.
However, just "ramming ahead and ignoring details" works wonders.

I do tend to 'bust down the doors' until/unless I get to a point where
either I know I have to back out/cancel, or I'm not sure if going further
is wise. A man's got to know his limitations.

At runtime, if an App needed Cloud storage for some reason, it
would likely need an MSA at that time. Or some sort of identifier.

I don't wear a tin foil hat, but I'm not in the cloud (a.k.a. somone
else's server). Just haven't had any use for it, yet, but with using
more machines, sometimes a wireless laptop in the den, and then an
ethernet desktop in the family room, I do like the idea of synching.
Synching is the only reason I'd have a 'cloud' presence. For the time
being, I'll just use cumbersome methods to have laptop and desktop in
synch.

I just don't like the idea of having my stuff on someone else's box.
Why would I want my kids/grandkids pics on the inet? One never knows how
one thing leads to another. Rather just do backups.


Even when Cloud interfaces say "you must do X to get us to do Y",
you do X as they suggest and Y doesn't work, this kind of deceit
is just how these companies work. It's because they have no
tech support phone number, no contact interface, they get
away with this stuff.

Paul