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kirby007 said:

green_sky said:

Microsoft account as in Outlook account or something else? Also, what is TPM?

it basicly activates the windows 11 license on your account and not on the hardware.

what already happens with windows 10 afaik

EDIT: well had a quick check i activated it personally, but it isn't required

I think it does both things, to be honest.

When I build my father's PC, I activated the copy of Windows during the installation with a MSoft account. Then, we found out that one of t he components was faulty and had to ask replacements for them (the faulty bit turned out to be the RAM). When I installed Windows again, I got the message that the licence was already in use in another system. Long story short, a call to MSoft did nothing and I had to buy another windows license.

So yeah, it doesn't matter if it's a MSoft account or a local account, if you get new hardware, you'll need a new license.

At least I learned the lesson, skip the activation (which you can) until all is done and I know the system works fine.