Installing Win 8.1

[Pedro_The_Swift]

First thing Microsoft do is seriously try and make you create a "Microsoft Account", which I gather is used then to log-in to Win 8 and other things.

For no real reason other than I dont want an account with Microsoft I found a work around on the net,,
agree to create an account,
the next screen gives you an out.

pretty sneaky really,,,

[incisor]

that will come back to bite later ;)

just go create a user@outlook.com account as your microsoft account

verify it by sending codes to mobile phone

then redirect all mail to normal email account..

much better solution :p