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Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

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[–] heygooberman@lemmy.today 50 points 10 months ago (5 children)

First with Chrome, now with OneDrive. What exactly are they trying to do with these "explanations" aside from annoying their user base?

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I suppose they think they can gather more information on user habits and user interaction with onedrive to determine how to reduce user loss.

[–] Isycius@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

If so, they should pay for Q/A and/or focus testing themselves. Not freeload off from forcing users.

I can already see that this won't gather them any data that is actually useful for analysis.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

it's barrier to exit

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pushing subscriptions and vendor lock-in. They harass you to use OneDrive so they can later harass you to pony up for a 365 subscription.

[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The only reason I want a 365 subscription is for Excel, still nothing really beats it.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but you can also just pirate a volume license version of Office 2016 and move on with life.

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 1 points 10 months ago

That's fine if you actually want it. I usually get the Costco deal for the family plan because we need the official MS Office apps and the terabyte storage per account is useful for us.

But Microsoft has gotten really obnoxious lately about upselling in the OS.

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Guilt tripping.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

the enshittification of chrome sucks since i used to love it