Recently, however, we discovered a super annoying way that your local user account is automatically and without your permission converted into a Microsoft account: when you first log into the Windows Store on your new Windows 10 PC your local user account (say “Bill”) gets switched over seamlessly to whatever email address you use for the Windows Store (say only is this an annoyance but if you end up in some comedy-of-errors situation where someone who isn’t you logs into the Windows Store then it converts your local user account to a Microsoft account with their login credentials. RELATED: All the Features That Require a Microsoft Account in Windows 10įor the most part it’s easy to prevent yourself from ending up with one account or another as you can easily choose which one you want when you initially install Windows or set Windows up for the first time after purchasing your PC.
While there are benefits to using a Microsoft account as your login (synchronization of files and browser history, for example) many people prefer to have their Windows login as a totally separate experience and entity from any online accounts they might have (Microsoft accounts included).
