Skip "Sign in to your Microsoft account" (Windows 8.1 Setup)?

I have an RT tablet and updated it to Windows 8.1. The update basically performs the new PC setup. I can't get past the "Sign into your Microsoft Account".
Clicking "Next" does not allow me to proceed (and provides an error hint for an email address). Repeatedly clicking "Next" with no information has not allowed me to bypass the screen (I've tried 20 or 30 times now).
Clicking "Don't have an account" does nothing because its not linked.
The other two options are "Create an account" a "Privacy statement". I don't want to create an account for this tablet, and I'm not interested in Microsoft's perverted terms of service for an account.
In Windows 8.0, we were given the option to use local authentication (if I recall the name correctly). The link was basically hidden, but it was present.
How do I bypass this f**king feature? Or how do I go back to Windows 8.0?

Actually IT IS NOT COMMON SENSE! Common sense would be for Microsoft to use the existing accounts, since it is an "upgrade", without EVER prompting one to do anything else. DUH. Anything less that that is NOT common sense.But the practice of tricking people
into giving up their email address and/or creating/signing in to Win 8 with a "Microsoft" account etc is just plain EVIL!. It is NEVER in the best interest of the user to give out personal info just to use an OS. And for Microsoft to trick people in to doing
so by HIDING the options to avoid it should be criminal. At the very least it is extremely immoral of them to do so. Metro/Start is nothing but a mini monopoly waiting to happen, just like the new Office 365. It should be avoided AT ALL COSTS! By DEFAULT the
ONLY moral option that should be offered by Microsoft is to setup an account that DOES not EVER want to know your real name etc so that ALL web surfing etc is 100% anonymous, so much so that Microsoft can't even tell who you are. Nothing less than that should
be illegal to say the least. But lets face it those powers that be that own our government are not about to let that happen. Heaven forbid they can't track us and spam us at will, not mention making it easy for the NSA to spy on us etc, and Microsoft is not
about to step up and do something to protect their customers form such intrusion.l In fact they want to be in on it so that they can get a cut of the profits. In fact they would like to fix it so that they will get a cut out of ALL the spying and spamming
that goes on on the internet and is one of the main reason they want your email address. HOW DISGUSTING!!!!!
The real correct answer is that Microsoft STOP collecting email addresses and starts recommending that users NEVER give real info when setting up Windows or any other software etc and that they are encouraged to use pseudo names for the account. Never a
real name or email address. NEVER! Anonymity on the web should be guaranteed by MS not the opposite.
Ralph

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I'd probably ask them over here.
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Hello,
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I am using my old WLID that I've created several years ago, and I have obsolete information including my country residence there. Now when I go to
https://billing.microsoft.com, I see that I have 2 profiles:
Personal profile: US
Business profile: Russia.
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Currently I have this information:
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I am stuck.
How do I change country for my Microsoft Account?
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from Microsoft Store?
If yes, can I use this new account only for purchasing apps while continuing to use my old account or all purchased apps are strictly tied to this new Microsoft Account I will use for purchasing?
Thank you.
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Hello,
Thanks to
this post @ Microsoft Answers, I was able to make Microsoft Store use correct information of my current country residence.
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like to have access to US store... Seems like the only workaround it to switch Home location for the time I purchase an app and change back when the app is purchased.
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Settings.
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Your account.
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Skype, Messenger, and your Microsoft Account

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So...
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I then notice she does not have any Skype details in her profile on my phone - only email (her Microsoft account) (which is also her Skype account). So I search for her using her Microsoft email address in Skype and she appears as a non-contact who I have to send a request to!
So now I have her twice in Skype; Once for Skype and once for Messenger!! I tried linking her accounts in her profile on my phone - which then shows her as one contact at outlook.com too - who I can Messenger chat with AND start a Skype call at outlook.com!!
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Hello,
Thanks to
this post @ Microsoft Answers, I was able to make Microsoft Store use correct information of my current country residence.
//The drawback in my case was that I lost the possibility to pay with Paypal, although Paypal supports payments in Russia, and, most importantly, I lost access to US marketplace, all comments/reviews are now in Russian. What a bummer! Honestly, I'd
like to have access to US store... Seems like the only workaround it to switch Home location for the time I purchase an app and change back when the app is purchased.
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Press WindowsKey+W to show Start screen and focus on searching in
Settings.
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In the Region dialog switch to Location tab and change the country of choice in the
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Just in case there is any relevance around about the time of receiving this email I and performed two fairly unusual actions.
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Shelady wrote:
... (wasn't even aware my gmail account had anything to do with Microsoft) ...
It doesn't. Gmail is owned by Google.
Shelady wrote:
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Can't find where to sign in with my Microsoft acco...

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[Forum FAQ] How to disable Microsoft account default sign-in behavior when accessing Microsoft website on Windows 8.1

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Cant see the option to login as microsoft account on system after windows 8 was refreshed with 8.1

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