I've been trying to get rid of OneDrive for months now, but I haven't been successful. It's yet another thing that makes me really hate Microsoft products.
Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
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Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#12This is just as annoying as Docker constantly asking me to rate it.
This trend is just tacky.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#13Same as restarting a server. It is something that should be running all the time so turning it off points to something not working, and asking for a valid reason makes sense.
> asking for a valid reason makes sense.
Only if you're trying to annoy your users as much as possible. Especially for something like a server, where presumably if the operator thinks Microsoft's help is required, they'll ask for it.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#14Same as restarting a server. It is something that should be running all the time so turning it off points to something not working, and asking for a valid reason makes sense.
This line of thinking only makes sense if you actively use OneDrive. If you don’t and have no interest in using it why leave it running? It’s bad enough that they automatically bundle it into Windows, but intrusively forcing a user to explain why they are using their own hardware in a certain way is silly.
I’m going to guess that the intersection of people who actively close unneeded background programs, and the users who are willing to explore alternatives overlaps quite a bit. This seems like a really shortsighted decision on Microsoft’s part.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#15I wish I could understand why product managers come up with these ideas and developers implement them. Every release, Microsoft improves Windows in one way (like WSL) and then adds two reasons why it should be uninstalled completely. I use OneDrive on certain computers in my business. In others, it's inappropriate. On all my business computers, Xbox, Candy Crush, MSN etc. are inappropriate. And Edge was great for a w…
> I wish I could understand why product managers come up with these ideas and developers implement them.
To become Senior Product Managers. You can't advance your career without putting your mark on the product.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#16Disappointed it doesn't show you a photo of the Product Manager responsible for OneDrive and make you answer them personally, like Jira went through a phase of doing. A totally missed opportunity.
It should be the law that PMs have their faces on such things to promote the same trust we feel towards real estate agents. Privacy policy when signing up? The PM should be there, being responsible.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#17I’ve noticed the Office and OneDrive web apps now make it subtly harder to download your files. All part of their lockin strategy I suppose.
Most first year university courses have to teach students how to use files and folders, it’s just not that well known anymore
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#18Strange that data corruption [1] is not offered as one of the options :) [1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedr...
Wow.... Also love the typical clueless response from the forum agent.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#19The newer versions of Windows seem to care less and less about what the user prefers. This is emblematic in the message boxes that offer a choice between Yes and Not Now/Maybe Later. It takes real effort to make Windows accept a No.
Windows 7 (Pro/Ultimate) will probably remain the least bad Windows ever released. Shame.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#20The newer versions of Windows seem to care less and less about what the user prefers. This is emblematic in the message boxes that offer a choice between Yes and Not Now/Maybe Later. It takes real effort to make Windows accept a No.
They are just forcing you to provide reasons for you not wanting to use their software, so they can change it in a way that makes you want to use it.
If that doesn't work, maybe they will use more hostile methods of coercion. For example, they could make it a service that restarts every 5 minutes after you kill it. They could also prevent you from disabling the service.