This is a huge hit to desktop ownership of the OS. Microsoft has officially made zero-trust a reality by doing this.
I expect there will be even more news at Ignite. Bear in mind 11 has been requiring a MS account for years and 10 is in it’s final months. Pushing users to cloud only Windows allows them (and their corporate customers) complete control of the ecosystem.
Olivia Munn was a huge tech advocate/personality back in the TechTV and G4TV days.
One of the first times I saw her it was a Linux segment on TechTV in the early 00’s as an example.