[geeks] Windows 8.1

[Bill Green]

On 17/06/14 03:13 PM, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Bill Green wrote:
> 
>> On 16/06/14 07:01 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>> User management has to be done through an external website?  Who
>>> thought that *that* was a good idea.
>>
>> IIRC from the brief time I spent looking into Windows 8 you can actually
>> add local users, MS just tried very hard to hide that fact.
> 
> By making it accessible through compmgmt.msc like it's been since Windows
> 2000?

The issue is with adding the users during the install, when there's no
obvious way to do so except by signing in with/up for their
web-identity-service thing.