You can make a Microsoft account for free through Microsoft's website. You can use a pre-existing email address for your Microsoft account or create a new one. If you're interested in using ...

If you’re already in Windows 11 using a Microsoft account, you can switch to a local account at any point. Go to Settings and then Accounts. Select the setting for Your Info.

Over time, Microsoft has tacitly encouraged you ever more to create a Microsoft account, but it’s never actually blocked you from creating a local one. It comes damn close in the October 2018 ...

When you create a new account with Microsoft (including for Xbox or any other company brand), you won’t have to come up with a complex alphanumeric password. Instead, you’ll only have to set ...

These days, I'm very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and even Albania. At least, that's what it looks like based on this list of recent attempts to sign in to my Microsoft ...

Occasionally, you may run into an issue trying to add a child's account to your Xbox. Given the complexity of Microsoft's permissions system, there might be several reasons behind the problem.

You can create passkeys for your Microsoft account by following this link, and you can choose your face, fingerprint, PIN, or a security key to use a device to sign in with a passkey.

Microsoft's relentless push for users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft account is hard to ignore, especially with Windows 11 making it tougher to bypass this requirement. But if you’re ...