• This month’s Windows 8.1 patch apparently disables Microsoft Account login

    Posted on September 25, 2017 at 08:01 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    There are lots of hints around the web that this month’s KB 4038792, the 2017-09 Monthly Rollup for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2, is leaving Win 8.1 customers unable to log in to their machines by using a Microsoft Account.

    If you haven’t already set up a Local Account, that’s a yuge problem.

    Microsoft’s known about the problem for almost two weeks. Initial posts blamed the Surface RT and original Surface Pro, but it looks to me like it’s a larger problem – one with automatic update, on Windows 8.1 itself.

    Computerworld Woody on Windows.

    Note: Günter Born came to largely the same conclusion this morning… as did Martin Brinkmann on ghacks.net.

    I think it’s great that Microsoft’s making a grand display today of quantum computing (and making a very tidy sum in the process). But what about the folks who are still running Windows 8.1 – who were actively discouraged from using Local Accounts back in the early days?

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