He joked: "Let's start with observing that Microsoft deems ITSELF suspicious.
In the absence of an explanation from the Windows giant, The Register asked a tame IT specialist for his thoughts on what the problem might be.
Sign out or restart your computer for the policy to take effect. So if you’re already using a Microsoft account, you should first switch to local account before applying this policy.Īfter selecting the right policy, click Apply and then OK. The existing Microsoft account will disappear from Windows sign-in screen and you’re unable to login with it.
If you select “ Users can’t add or log on with Microsoft accounts“, uses on the PC will not able to add new Microsoft account. But you can still log on with your existing Microsoft account. This also means that one can’t switch a local account to Microsoft account. If you select “ Users can’t add Microsoft accounts“, users on the PC will not able to add new Microsoft account.
This is a security hole discovered in Windows 10 and 8. Therefore, any user of the PC with the administrator privileges can easily recover it (refer to this article).
Once you’ve switched to a Microsoft account, Windows encrypts your text password with a reversible encryption algorithm.