• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 days ago

    For IT purposes, i fuckin’ love it. Forced sync of Desktop and Documents folders for users, all the email is server-side. no more bitching about data loss. “Did you use one drive like you said you would when you clicked “OK” to that user agreement?”

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      22 days ago

      In a professional context (e.g. work/office), O365 and related technologies make a lot of sense. It solves all kinds of real problems, especially for a remote/hybrid workforce. It’s by no means the best answer for any one application, but it’s a very comprehensive platform and gets the job done.

      For the home user? Constantly forcing OneDrive into everyone’s field of view on OS upgrades is intrusive advertising for a thing nobody asked for.

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      Exactly. It’s very useful in a managed environment. It’s performance overheads suck though.Way too much CPU usage.

      But it should not be part of Windows, only office 365 or as an optional 3rd party service.

      Same story with icloud on Apple and Google Drive on Android.

      No free version of a paid cloud service should be included in any OS. It should require a separate opt-in sign up. Have we not learnt anything from the Microsoft antitrust cases.

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        22 days ago

        Absolutely. The average consumer device shouldn’t have any kind of internet dependancies baked into the OS, IMO. It should always be installed/enabled separately. There’s still vast swathes of the US that don’t have reliable internet.

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      22 days ago

      My favourite part is when you log into your work PC, and a bunch of things you deleted 6 months ago have re-appeared on your desktop.