I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt in my mind here but this is a tough one to explain away.
Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
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Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
#12They can't be throttling based on user-agent... right? I thought this was the New Microsoft. Any other hypotheses?
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Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not throttling based on user-agent. It's just a bug that happens when the user-agent parser falls off a cliff when it exhausts the values that it knows about. A bug that Microsoft won't fix, because Linux is not supported.
But user-agent parsing should be blazing fast, a one-liner regexp or similar, isn't it?
That was sarcasm
Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
#14Unhelpful catch-all responses that don't display a shred of effort or care are the bane of my customer support experiences. Nothing hurts my opinion of a company like being brushed off like a bug.
Yes, this. It just makes it seem like they're hoping you'll give up and go away.
Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
#15MS giveth and MS taketh away.
MS giveth and I'd wish they'd take it away.
I can't turn Onedrive off because I'm on Windows 10 Home edition (thanks to the forced upgrade from Win 7). I don't use it but everytime I access a share on my linux box, it pops up and want to be configured.
Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
#16This is not a new thing. Decades ago when Verizon contracted with Microsoft to "upgrade" their web portal, it was no longer usable from any browser other than IE. I had been using it from Netscape on various SPARC machines and from my mobile device (PalmOS). The web page html source had no exotic platform specific language elements. It was obviously a "business decision". I wrote the VP at Verizon a letter pointing out that they had just abandoned 5% of their user base. I also switched to AT&T.
Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
#17I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt in my mind here but this is a tough one to explain away.
Maybe they're injecting a brazillion polyfills if it's not a known user-agent?
Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
#18They can't be throttling based on user-agent... right? I thought this was the New Microsoft. Any other hypotheses?
I have no direct understanding but I have a hypothesis; - different generated html / js depending on user agent (UA) - bug fixes are rolled out on a UA by UA basis - bug fixes have been rolled out for Windows and Mac (supported) - but not for the "generic" HTML / JS output If this is true it will mean that anything other than the supported platforms will fall further behind as time goes by.
That sounds highly likely. Intentional throttling doesn't help Microsoft in this case. I don't think they view Linux desktops (aside from Chromebooks) as a serious threat. Why wouldn't they want more OneDrive users?
Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
#19They can't be throttling based on user-agent... right? I thought this was the New Microsoft. Any other hypotheses?
Throttling is the only thing I can think of. This is the New New Microsoft then, similar to the first.
"And sometimes there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one.
Like with pie."
Re: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
#20They can't be throttling based on user-agent... right? I thought this was the New Microsoft. Any other hypotheses?
>Any other hypotheses?
Other than the obviousness of the new MS being worse than the old MS? Between the major issues Windows 10 has in almost all respects but not limited to shocking privacy issues, the very poor quality of updates, and the hamfisted way Win10 was forced on some users, I suspect we'll be missing the Gates/Balmer years more and more. As someone who has to roll out 100 Win10 workstations, I can't believe the shit I have to jump through to get basic funtionality and how the defaults in terms of start menu items, included apps, privacy, gpo limitations, etc is highly business inappropriate, even with professional volume licenses.
I'm not sure what the "New Microsoft" really means, but from what I've seen its something that has only added hassle to enterprise and chased more people into the loving arms of OSX. Everyone in my social circle now has a mac after toughing out on 7 and giving up on 10. Nadella's run is starting to look like a Marissa Mayer-like run to me. A welcomed change of leadership from the tech press but one that was unable to fix historic problems and also introduced their own new set of problems.