Windows 10 exiles fear not, KDE is here!

[king1]

I recently had a client who had his computer reset and wipe all the apps after asking him to sign into microsoft, I initially thought it was a case of PEBKAC, but speaking to others, they tell me they have heard of similar stories where the computer prompts the user to sign into microsoft after a windows update and then proceed to perform some kind of system reset, which is what I had assumed had happened here, but he was adamant that all he did was sign into a microsoft account when prompted and then it restarted spinning around with the dont turn off your PC message.

Seen a similar thing happen before as well, although I was able to find all the old data in a different user profile, and it didn't wipe or remove apps...

The user had unwittingly signed in with an account in use on another PC which had a completely different role and data...

It was kind of like the MS account sign in process decided that the local account profile data was too different to the data in the existing MS account and rather than merge all the data it setup a new profile for the signed in data...