Elon Musk slams Microsoft, then seeks CEO Satya Nadella's technical support
Elon Musk asked Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella for technical support.
Elon Musk slammed Microsoft for not letting him use his new PC laptop without having a Microsoft account.
His own site X's Community Notes feature added some readers context to explain to the billionaire tech mogul that there is a workaround to still use his PC without having an account.
Musk wrote on his micro-blogging site (formerly Twitter): “Just bought a new PC laptop and it won’t let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their AI access to my computer. This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account. Are you seeing this too?"
When someone gave him a shortcut to bypass creating an account, he initially replied: "Doesn't work. That just reboots the computer and takes me back to the "Signup for Microsoft to continue" screen."
Aaron Slodov (@aphysicist) explained that it should then "reboot" and let him skip the account creation whilst apologising to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Musk was then able to use his computer.
He replied: "Finally got through it, thanks.
"Laptop automatically connected to a local WiFi that didn't have a password without asking. Was able to skip once I deselected that."
He went on to say that he sent Nadella a text for "technical support".
