Mayayana wrote:

Yes. Very sleazy. But there's been a similar
discussion going on in the Win7 group and one
of the MS MVPs says that Win10 will actually
require an MS account, being redefined as a
service rather than software.

We're playing around with the latest preview. If you want to activate
Cortana it wants you to log into your M$ account. I'm sure there will be
many more annoyances like that.