Originally Posted by
CPRich
They try really, really hard to get you to enter a MS/Hotmail/Outlook/etc. account when setting up the OS. I got suckered in the first time and re-installed to get a standard local account just on my machine. It's been a long time, but I remember having to search for some cryptic language that enabled it. You may want to start over.
I had to hook it to my Hotmail account to go from Windows 8.1 preview to Windows 8.1 release. It was really annoying, because it didnt tell me I had to do that, it just kept cryptically failing to connect to the Microsoft store. Googling was maddening to fix it, until finally one guy posted the solution.
I keep meaning to send it back to a local account.