`We have a new hire who is our sales of operation on board this morning. And the first thing for her to get started with is setting up her computer. (We ordered a DELL laptop 15 inch from JD.com. Actually we ordered 2 DELL laptops and 1 Apple MBP, PC laptops were for our account and sales operation people, the Mac for our designer.)

the mac took like 5 minutes to get setup and ready to work.

But the PCs...

First, you need to sign in with your Microsoft account. Wait, what is my Microsoft account? The only thing that I can recall is my long-gone hotmail email account... Can we skip?

Sign In Using Your Microsoft Account.png

Humm, I guess I have to create a new account... When I'm like half way through the form, I noticed this link at the footer of the form "Don't Use Microsoft Account to Sign In". You did a good job man! Why not giving me the option on the previous screen...

Creating Your Microsoft Account

Okey, here we go! a 45 minutes long wait for the computer to get key updates.

Downloading Key Updates, DO NOT turn off your computer

Can I just skip this and do it later when I'm installing my software? I just need to use the fucking computer!
How come this couldn't be done when you ship the computer at the factory?
Why wasting consumers' precious life? 45 minutes for each consumer, multiple by the number of laptops shipped, you do the math.