Microsoft quietly changed how folder backup works in the OneDrive app on Windows 11. Now, the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
Wasting data for those who pay for it in a metered fashion, wasting bandwidth while uploading needlessly, wasting metered storage space in your OD if it’s copying shit you don’t want it to copy. A potential security issue for businesses/corporate/industrial users maybe?
It sounds like a PITA. Id be upset if Arch started backing up my shit to a cloud storage website without my explicit permission. I’m not surprised Windows is doing this. Windows has always been shitty, but it’s increasingly end-user hostile. I feel no shame in having pirated every version of an MS OS from the 3.11 upgrade up until the Win10 I keep on a desktop for my kids to use for school stuff that doesn’t play nice with Linux.
I think their current strategic goal is to turn windows in to an os as a service where little or nothing is locally stored. They want everything on msft servers, using msft storage, with an iPhone stlye walled garden where everything has to come from the msft store.
i figured things were trending this way when i tried to play a dvd on a laptop a few years ago and it turns out they don’t include the software to play dvds anymore and msft just took me to their store page where i could buy it. thankfully i knew about vlc player but i wonder how many people get swindled every year from shit like that
Wasting data for those who pay for it in a metered fashion, wasting bandwidth while uploading needlessly, wasting metered storage space in your OD if it’s copying shit you don’t want it to copy. A potential security issue for businesses/corporate/industrial users maybe?
It sounds like a PITA. Id be upset if Arch started backing up my shit to a cloud storage website without my explicit permission. I’m not surprised Windows is doing this. Windows has always been shitty, but it’s increasingly end-user hostile. I feel no shame in having pirated every version of an MS OS from the 3.11 upgrade up until the Win10 I keep on a desktop for my kids to use for school stuff that doesn’t play nice with Linux.
I think their current strategic goal is to turn windows in to an os as a service where little or nothing is locally stored. They want everything on msft servers, using msft storage, with an iPhone stlye walled garden where everything has to come from the msft store.
i figured things were trending this way when i tried to play a dvd on a laptop a few years ago and it turns out they don’t include the software to play dvds anymore and msft just took me to their store page where i could buy it. thankfully i knew about vlc player but i wonder how many people get swindled every year from shit like that
That’s probably more about licensing costs, of course they could just eat the cost. It’s the same story for other stuff like HEIC.
Yuk