Windows 11 Start menu rolls out Microsoft 365 menu that hides key features
IT admins and users are unhappy with Windows 11's new Start menu feature integrating Microsoft account details. Introduced in KB5039302, it replaces the account menu with Microsoft account information, prompting users to link accounts and pushing Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Despite Microsoft's claims, users criticize the design for hiding essential options and express a desire for traditional logout choices.
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IT admins and users are expressing dissatisfaction with Windows 11's new feature that integrates Microsoft account details into the Start menu. This change, introduced with Windows 11 KB5039302, will be enabled for all users on July 9 through Patch Tuesday updates. The update replaces the previous account menu with a Microsoft account-powered experience, displaying Microsoft 365 subscription information and other details. Users have criticized the new design for hiding essential options like Sign out and Switch user under a three-dot menu. Additionally, the update prompts users to link their Microsoft account, potentially pushing them towards Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Despite Microsoft touting this as a beneficial update for managing account settings, users have voiced their opposition in Feedback Hub posts and forums, expressing a desire for traditional logout options without account details. Unfortunately, it seems that the Microsoft account integration in the Start menu is a permanent change, regardless of user preferences.
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5 commentsThen *the OS* became the product. And it needed glitz, and it needed a GUI. And so a GUI came. And then "updates" came - for we were now "online".-
And thus the "network" came, and we were "as one", and our compute was joined forevermore, and we could no more tell our children from our children's children and our old age from our youth. And sadness and pointlessness was turned "social" into glitz. And everything from our infirmity to praise went there as plain as day and dark as night for all to see. And all seemed well.-
And it came to pass that our user accounts went on the net, for they were "subscribed", and they were also "online", for they had lost their flavour. And the advertising came ...
Now, we ourselves are the product. The "network" is the computer, and much woe is to come. And there shall be much girding of our loins, off of our loins as well, for our hardrives and compute are places of consumption, rented out under pretense of service to those that run the bits.-
For now AI is also come, for we have ourselves trained it, with the fruit of our sweat and our tears. And all is well and will be well, for AI shall be unto us a confort in loneliness, and a hand in our fields and unto us an oracle for all truth and wisdom and even law - with time.-
And we forgot our code and became garrulous and forgetful of our trades and machinery, and we knew less and less with every season. And it became the law to know the code no longer, and the trades. For it was now a crime and deed of evil to gaze upon the code, or long for it, or learn, or have our trades as did our fathers.-
And the computer shall no more exist, for all will be compute.-
I am copying this bit. For reuse. Unfortunately ...
No Windows sysadmin nor Windows user in the world is waiting for "features" like this.
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