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Would it be appropriate to change the title to "OneDrive leaves a lot to be desired"... I originally thought this was about Microsoft Azure.
Agreed, and I flagged the article (please do so, so that the mods see it).
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There are other pain points too. One I ran into lately is the business version of OneDrive uses a fixed folder name based off your company name and it's hard to change. For example: C:\Users\Rumpelstiltskin\OneDrive - Rumpelstiltskin's Gold Spinning Services Inc.\ Then you realize that Excel has a 218 character path limit on file names and things get ridiculous really fast.
subst X: C:\Users\Rumpelstiltskin\OneDrive - Rumpelstiltskin's Gold Spinning Services Inc.\ Annoying, but it does work.
Eventually I settled on abbreviating company names and putting OneDrive in C:\OD, so:
C:\OD\OneDrive - RGSS\Shared Folder\
C:\OD\RGSS\Rumpelstiltskin - Shared Folder\
OneDrive is a classic example of how screwed MS management techniques still are: it started as a Windows-only service that was pretty good; then the focus switched to Mac and now it’s pretty good on Mac, but the Windows version got worse. Office apps kinda work with it (I don’t use Outlook...), but the Sharepoint integration is a shitshow. It all seems very haphazardly developed. For something that should be the rock…
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How did Windows 10 ship? The thing constantly overrides user-set preferences: fonts, colors, and worst of all - default apps. Reports usage data to Microsoft with no way to turn it off. An update mechanism that lives its own dominating life, interrupting user workflow whenever it wants.
To be fair, it was replacing Windows 8.
Once something like Classic Shell was installed, it was pretty slick and reliable.
My last Windows machine now runs 10 begrudgingly, and compared to my daily drivers MacOS and Ubuntu, it's a shockingly inconsistent operating system. I don't rely on it for "real work" thankfully.
Would it be appropriate to change the title to "OneDrive leaves a lot to be desired"... I originally thought this was about Microsoft Azure.
I may be wrong, but I suspect it is yet another case of "disconnection" between what the MS (in this case but I have seen the same phenomenon with other software) developers have (in terms of hardware, connection speed and bandwidth) and what your average Joe has or can afford. Since several years softwares seems to be designed by people that have top of the range resources (which is normal since their hardware and c…
I feel that OneDrive is a piece of $&!+. Not that it's bad, but that it's randomly inconsistent. We made the decision two years ago to run our company on OneDrive, and we've experienced almost everything covered in this article (except the .pst and one-note file issues because we don't use them). That being said, I don't really know of a good alternative. It mostly works. Until those really random days when it just c…
DropBox?
That was the greatest tragedy from the Windows 8 era. Somehow Dropbox can make cloud sync work, Box can make cloud sync work, Google can make cloud sync work, ... Microsoft can't. How is that?
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To be fair, it was replacing Windows 8.
In hindsight, Windows 8 wasn't that bad overall. The real disaster was the Metro UI, but the underlying OS was relatively unobtrusive and a bit more performant than Win7. Once something like Classic Shell was installed, it was pretty slick and reliable. My last Windows machine now runs 10 begrudgingly, and compared to my daily drivers MacOS and Ubuntu, it's a shockingly inconsistent operating system. I don't rely on…
This might be the Second Law of Thermodynamics at work, but seriously, I don't understand how these things got shipped.