billionaire: they are just like us. This is what Elon Musk reminded us of when he started using a social media network called X. He bought it for $44 billion.personal technical support to solve problems.
The story begins over the weekend, when Mr. Musk I posted about the problem He was facing a Windows PC running X. The billionaire was apparently upset that he couldn't complete his process of setup without creating a Microsoft account, but it came down to 'giving their AI access to my computer. I didn't want to do it because of that. (It's not clear what Mr. Musk was referring to here, but it should be pointed out that customers can do things like: Opt out of data sharing Powered by Microsoft Copilot, an AI chatbot integrated into Windows 11)
Musk's post eventually received a ping from Community Notes, X's crowd-sourced fact-checking feature, which said the options Musk was mentioning were still available and asked them to provide a link to the process. Became. But the billionaire got serious.
“Community Notes is failing here. This option no longer exists,” Musk said Sunday.
Community Notes contributors, who are unpaid volunteers, did not have that.
“Yes, that's right. However, this is not possible in the same easy way as before on Windows 10 and requires some tricky workarounds that the average Andy may not be aware of,” Masks said. A note is written below his tweet.
After interacting with other users who tried to help him, the billionaire eventually managed to succeed. Set up his new PC Sunday night without creating a Microsoft account. This experience essentially proves the Community Note correct, and I imagine it's the only reason it wasn't removed from Mr. Musk's tweets.
But Musk wasn't ready to let go of the situation just yet. The next day, he contacted his CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, on his X and asked: please Allows you to set up a Windows PC without creating a new account. Oh, can you also fix the email requirement?
“Satya, I don't mean to be a pest, but please allow people setting up new Windows PCs to skip creating a Microsoft account. If the computer is connected to WiFi, this option will not appear. . And even if I wanted to sign up, I can't use my work email address. I only have a work email address,” Musk wrote.
As of this article's publication on Monday, Nadella had not yet responded.
This article was originally published on Gizmodo.