In direction of the tip of March, Microsoft made its intention fairly apparent, that it needs to take away the BYPASSNRO workaround, which permits customers to skip web connectivity and Microsoft Account sign-ins. Fortunately, a brand new bypass methodology (together with an official one) has since been found, and good ol’ Rufus works nonetheless.

Neowin readers have been, amongst many, not too proud of the transfer, as evident from their feedback. A few of them raised some fairly legitimate issues, too. For instance, consumer tHE_uKER talked about the case of an absence of any web connectivity, which led to a flurry of responses from a few of our different readers.

Here is the complete change:

tHE_uKER

What about PCs that do not have and can by no means have web connectivity?

Is that not a official use case now?

leonsk29

Good level. Evidently they now need you to pay for an Enterprise SKU license if that is the case. And what about if the Web is down or not obtainable for some purpose on the time of putting in? Somebody at Microsoft is being very silly proper now.

TheGhostPhantom

You may log into your account with the web down.

leonsk29

Into what account if Microsoft does not allow you to use an area one? That is so complicated and silly…

neufuse

however you may’t arrange a pc that can by no means have the web…… and dont give me that “everybody has the web” excuse… generally you could have conditions the place computer systems won’t ever and that i imply by no means be on the web, I do know now we have a number of use instances at work the place we forbid particular methods from ever being community linked.. and no we do not use enterprise version anyplace in our enterprise, its a waste of cash for all you get for our use instances

One other reader on the identical remark thread C:Amie described their essential purpose for utilizing the BYPASSNRO command to skip these necessities in the course of the Home windows 11 set up:

Effectively that sucks. It would not be so dangerous, if when tied to a Microsoft account, if we did not have to take a seat there and look ahead to the system to put in some silly replace for 20 minutes earlier than we are able to log into the profile.

That is one of many essential causes I skip it.

Having forked out for 11 Professional (£120) you then must fork out greater than double that to get to the Enterprise SKU. Quantity Licensing solely begins to turn out to be smart at over 15 system licenses – one thing that numerous small companies do not qualify for. Lastly in the event you then wish to use any of the performance from Enterprise, you must then fork out for a Area controller (which they look like shifting towrds deprecating) or £35/mo + VAT per-device for InTune (which mandates an Web connection).

And weirdly sufficient the one option to activate Enterprise offline is with a KMS server (min £1500

It isn’t simply Neowin readers who’re displeased at this step, although. The corporate’s official Suggestions Hub additionally has an entry with the title “Don’t take away bypassnro.cmd script from Home windows 11 OOBE” relating to this. It has been upvoted by 112 customers on the time of writing. This difficulty was opened final month and was final upvoted round eight hours in the past.

Earlier this week, consumer Nathan S steered making it elective. They write:

It shouldn’t be eliminated, what if individuals want to not have a Microsoft account, like let individuals not have one, depart it elective, perhaps even including a skip account button even when linked to web, like its okay to steer somebody, however do not pressure them, that feels actually anti shopper, and begging for management over individuals.

For some purpose although the entry could not present up when one searches for it, so you might have missed it in case you have been searching for one thing like that. You may discover the entry right here in case you wish to upvote it or add a few of your individual private suggestions there.

The elimination of BYPASSNRO continues to be in testing, so the tech big ought to be wanting into these. So that is your likelihood to let Microsoft know that you’re not fairly on board with it, earlier than it finishes testing and hits normal availability standing. To date, nevertheless, no “official response” from Microsoft has been posted on it.