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Disappointed 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.
I am speculating that only a fraction of users explicitly shut down a program that appears beasides the clock. Is it truly worth irritating that segment of users? I am one of those who occasionally turns off OneDrive. However, the idea of starting to look for alternatives has only just struck me. I'm really tired of waves of popups everywhere.
Every 3 months MS "updates" windows by prompting me to enable edge, buy/try office, enable one drive, etc. And every button for no is in a different location.
I 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.
"Yeah, he ruined the product, let's promote him to Senior Product Manager" is not a thing that people say very often.
I 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…
My integrity in regards to my job goes as far as not doing things that are illegal or straight up immoral, but other than that'll do pretty much whatever my boss wants me to. Something that's annoying but relatively harmless like this I wouldn't even bat an eye at. It's a pretty rough job market out there at the moment and I'm not looking to make any waves or get on anybody's radar by being difficult.
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.
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.
What happens when you go thru the uninstall process? I've uninstalled OD on 100+ systems. It's always followed the pattern of other crapware; it goes away until the next major update.
It's still incredibly annoying, though. It's not something that brings benefit to me, so it's not something I ever use.
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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 user…
Is it even possible to run Windows anymore without a Microsoft account? If you only have a local account, OneDrive has nothing to sync to, right?
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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 user…
Is it even possible to run Windows anymore without a Microsoft account? If you only have a local account, OneDrive has nothing to sync to, right?
Sure. On Pro you choose Organization/Domain setup and create the local account. Home is harder and the process keeps shifting. There are guides.
> If you only have a local account, OneDrive has nothing to sync to, right?
Mostly correct except if you have a local account and an MS login for Store/Office/etc. It isn't syncing automatically (so far) but could be triggered accidentally.
Another first today. I saw a dot next to my username (Start->username) that was naggy notification to MS Account myself.
> Hopefully, Microsoft won’t start injecting a poll at shutdown demanding to know why I’m turning my PC off for the day. Clearly they've never used Windows Server.