Many users use an e-mail trick to avoid creating a Microsoft account. This has now apparently been stopped by Microsoft.
  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I don’t think Microsoft can reasonably block opening the command prompt and bypassing the OOBE without breaking a lot of other things, but them removing the simpler workarounds is a pretty obvious attempt to get more people to sign in with a Microsoft account.