You don’t have to be a techie to see it. There’s a button right below the email text box saying “Add a user without a Microsoft account” (here’s another variation). Sure if you don’t care about privacy then you might not notice it, but it’s pretty hard to miss if you actually don’t want to use an email. Microsoft sucks but don’t spread misinformation.
It requires numerous steps to bypass the account requirement or the creation of special installation media. I ran into this when installing W11 on a VM in January.
Perhaps the screenshots you posted were accurate at some point or in some situations, but you need to do better research before accusing others of spreading misinformation and stop spreading it yourself.
You don’t have to be a techie to see it. There’s a button right below the email text box saying “Add a user without a Microsoft account” (here’s another variation). Sure if you don’t care about privacy then you might not notice it, but it’s pretty hard to miss if you actually don’t want to use an email. Microsoft sucks but don’t spread misinformation.
A tomshardware.com article about how to bypass the account requirement from February of this year:
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-without-microsoft-account
It requires numerous steps to bypass the account requirement or the creation of special installation media. I ran into this when installing W11 on a VM in January.
Perhaps the screenshots you posted were accurate at some point or in some situations, but you need to do better research before accusing others of spreading misinformation and stop spreading it yourself.