Re: Local account
Local account: That is the FIRST thing I set up when I set up a Win-10-nic VM [never on actual hardware] for testing software on that platform. I make DAMN sure I'm not using their privacy-nuking cloud-based "Micro-shaft Account" for ANYTHING, especially not the 'admin' account in a Win-10-nic instance [which I rarely, if ever, use].
yeah who gets anything from "the store" anyway, right? It was STUPID to require ANY of that.
And NOW, Cortana goes away too. Like Clippy. [Clippy *IS* gone now, right? I haven't used a Microsoft 'office' type product in a VERY long time]
And, seriously, WHO was that "bright bulb" "MENSA candidate" that decided that the SEARCH bar would "hit the cloud" *FIRST* anyway??? [that 'feature' needs to be *OFF*] I stopped using MS's search long ago, preferring instead to use find+grep under Cygwin... like I would in LINUX. Or FreeBSD.
Of course MS totally missed the boat when it comes to user customization. Win-10-nic TOTALLY tried to REMOVE that (any kind of CHOICE or PREFERENCE we users might have), INSTEAD cramming their "bright blue on blinding white" 2D FLATTY *HIDEOUS* UI concepts into our various body orifices, without even the benefit of lube.
So, INSTEAD, they could have opened up a method by which you could have your OWN search assistant, NOT tied through Bing, that didn't look/sound like Cortana. Maybe "Trixie" the porn-star assistant? Dressed like a Victorian maid, of course! And wanting to be PUNISHED whenever she gets something wrong...
(I'd buy THAT for a dollar!)