@GossiTheDog I got past it last week by getting to the screen requesting it, pressing shift+f10 to bring up a command prompt, then doing a dhcp release (ipconfig /release), followed by hitting the back arrow. I was then able to create a local account.

@fellows @GossiTheDog this is not how computers should work....

@eselet @fellows @GossiTheDog You seem to have the mistaken impression that it is YOUR computer. If you have Windows on it, it is Microsoft's computer, any payment(s) you have made notwithstanding.

@brouhaha @eselet @GossiTheDog I don’t know if any of you guys have watched “For All Mankind” on AppleTV+ but the premise behind the show is that it takes place in an alternate reality where the Russians landed on the moon first. Thus changing the trajectory of the space race and all the developments that come with it. Wonder what would have happened if OS/2 Warp got the desktop market first? Would IBM have been a better steward?