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You don’t have to create a Microsoft account to use Windows. I’ve worked with thousands of windows computers and the performance issues you describe are not normal. You have something going on that’s not Windows itself. Yes it bundles browsers and it annoys with suggestions to switch, and there are other similar issues from time to time that are usually mitigated by administrators via group policy. Crashing and bad performance are not typical. Windows is very reliable,
You don’t have to create a Microsoft account to use Windows. I’ve worked with thousands of windows computers and the performance issues you describe are not normal. You have something going on that’s not Windows itself. Yes it bundles browsers and it annoys with suggestions to switch, and there are other similar issues from time to time that are usually mitigated by administrators via group policy. Crashing and bad performance are not typical. Windows is very reliable,