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With this decision OneDrive might become usable for the rest of us. While flip-flopping is bad, I think they did the right thing here for their target consumer

With this decision OneDrive might become usable for the rest of us. While flip-flopping is bad, I think they did the right thing here for their target consumers. OneDrive is no longer a backup and storage cloud service. It's now a document syncing and sharing service. Hopefully it will be more usable soon as such. On another note, now it makes perfect sense why they removed virtual file system support on Windows 10. The intention isn't to add capacity to your system, but to mirror files to the cloud.

FussyZeus 11y ago
So why in the world would I pay more money for less storage vs. Google or Dropbox? Microsoft is already hurting for market share, I don't understand why they would kneecap their cloud services when the competition is so thick with companies offering tons of storage for so little money. The Office integration isn't THAT good anyway, and both the PC and Mac apps have a LOT of issues on top of it, and all that to address the issues presented by a minority of abusers who won't be affected by a lot of what's pissing people off.
- IanDrake 11y ago
  "So why in the world would I pay more money for less storage vs. Google or Dropbox?" If that's the premise you're starting with, then you're already wrong. DropBox 1TB = $9.99/m GoogleDrive 1TB = $9.99/m OneDrive 1TB + Office365 = $6.99/m
signal11 11y ago
One can share documents just fine on Google Drive and Dropbox. Doesn't need Microsoft Office, but works with it as well. Removing placeholder files on Windows 10 was a kneecap to users with small SSDs. You may think it makes perfect sense, but again, Microsoft took a unique differentiating feature and threw it down the train. Now there's no upside to using OneDrive over Dropbox/Google Drive. Post-hoc justify it all you like, OneDrive's management has been a mess this past year. They've seen high-level execs leave, and the confused thinking shows up in their product and service plans.
- IanDrake 11y ago
  I wouldn't argue with anything you said there. I'm in favor of them improving the service and if that means not being all things to all people, I'm okay with that.

FussyZeus 11y ago

So why in the world would I pay more money for less storage vs. Google or Dropbox? Microsoft is already hurting for market share, I don't understand why they would kneecap their cloud services when the competition is so thick with companies offering tons of storage for so little money. The Office integration isn't THAT good anyway, and both the PC and Mac apps have a LOT of issues on top of it, and all that to address the issues presented by a minority of abusers who won't be affected by a lot of what's pissing people off.

IanDrake 11y ago
"So why in the world would I pay more money for less storage vs. Google or Dropbox?" If that's the premise you're starting with, then you're already wrong. DropBox 1TB = $9.99/m GoogleDrive 1TB = $9.99/m OneDrive 1TB + Office365 = $6.99/m

signal11 11y ago

One can share documents just fine on Google Drive and Dropbox. Doesn't need Microsoft Office, but works with it as well. Removing placeholder files on Windows 10 was a kneecap to users with small SSDs. You may think it makes perfect sense, but again, Microsoft took a unique differentiating feature and threw it down the train. Now there's no upside to using OneDrive over Dropbox/Google Drive. Post-hoc justify it all you like, OneDrive's management has been a mess this past year. They've seen high-level execs leave, and the confused thinking shows up in their product and service plans.

IanDrake 11y ago
I wouldn't argue with anything you said there. I'm in favor of them improving the service and if that means not being all things to all people, I'm okay with that.