Pretty much the method I'd used to set up a co-worker's computer (I'd done it before with the preview release -- but initially had trouble the exact steps as I'd originally stumbled across the method by accident). The issue came about when he activated Skype. Skype forced him into using the MS account, then upon subsequent boot, he needed to sign in using the MS account, not the local user. Aside from changing the login, it had the "side effect" of connection to shares on the network stopped working. Although if you check with Windows, it tells you that the current user is the local Windows account, when connecting on the network it seems to default using the MS account. This was easily addressed by setting up a script that runs at login and explicitly specifies the username when connecting to shares. Disconnecting from the MS account through settings was easy enough to do to revert the login --- but the moment you try using Modern edition of Skype, it forces you back into logging into the MS account. It does get irritating that to perform the modeswitch you're forced into logging off, then logging in again. Due to limitations imposed by the Modern version of Skype (it is sandboxed, so features such as desktop sharing apparently isn't available) -- so I'll probably have to install the desktop Skype (hopefully I'll not run into a problem that I'd been hearing about -- once you install the Modern version of Skype, the installation of the desktop version seems to fail, or doesn't work completely. I've not yet confirmed if this is indeed true or not)

>I stumbled across this just now.
>http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToSignIntoWindows8Or81WithoutAMicrosoftAccountMakeALocalUser.aspx
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>>Ok - so the trick must be to log into windows with your MS account, then log in with your regular username/password - but DO NOT DELETE the windows's account that has the MS account - which is what I did it hopes it would just ask me for the MS login info when I clicked on the tiles. I wonder if it works without connecting to an AD. Anyway it sounds like it is indeed possible to do what I want. Now in my case I will be the only user on the tablet - but I wonder if you had more than one user setup how it would know which MS windows account to link to which regular account. I guess only downside of this is that you have to create an additional windows account to get this all to fly right - that kinda sucks but oh well.