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It enables in non-consensual manners, break apps and games(because paths change and APIs work differently), clings onto your files even if you tried to save the

It enables in non-consensual manners, break apps and games(because paths change and APIs work differently), clings onto your files even if you tried to save them from the OneDrive folder, and throws a tantrum and irreversibly delete your files if you dare unlink the PC and disable it. I don't know why they commit to especially the last part. To me, it feels like that is why Microsoft's Windows efforts are getting a lot of negative press lately; there must be lots of writers and media individuals who had lost data to that exact behavior who are now perpetually biased against them for that reason. Just why?

keyringlight 1y ago
I think it's the curse of windows being attached to a tech company, and a tech company seems to want to keep pursuing cool things™ instead of boring maintenance on a utility. Over the years lots of little extra non-essential functionality has crept into windows to where you could almost compare it with a lightweight linux distro, or that it's hard to draw the line where the OS ends, and then you're getting into territory where everyone relies upon a different subset of what's available which MS has been increasingly able to use to justify adding more 'essential' features for modern computing.
- justsomehnguy 1y ago
  > cool things™ instead of boring maintenance on a utilit You can't re-sell a boring utility every one/two/three years. Nobody wants it - not the top management (bonuses for the revenue growth), nor the middle management (bonuses for the succesful new projects), nor the guys who implements the things (reconginition for the new projects). Or talking simpler - KPI. And there is no 'we improved the stability for 0.0000002% of clients' indicator along with 'customers are happy with the thing we sold them in 2017'. And don't forget what it was some fruit company what even wasn't in the corporate which made it fashionable to have a 'totes new and refreshing experience (along with a hefty price tag)' every year or two.
  - brianwawok 1y ago
    Stability, performance, security, all of this stuff doesn’t matter until it becomes a crisis, then it’s the most important thing in the world
userbinator 1y ago
don't know why they commit to especially the last part. MS thinks it knows better than you. It thinks its owns your data. Remember that this has happened before (7 years ago!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189139
- numpad0 1y ago
  I think what they think is that power users and above are rounding errors, so damages are always negligible. And one thing I know as a longtime MS "customer" is that things that would allow their employee to collect and display a decapitated head of another employee gets done lightning quick, otherwise never happens. I guess I should be trying to find a way to cause it, weird thing to do, though.

keyringlight 1y ago

I think it's the curse of windows being attached to a tech company, and a tech company seems to want to keep pursuing cool things™ instead of boring maintenance on a utility. Over the years lots of little extra non-essential functionality has crept into windows to where you could almost compare it with a lightweight linux distro, or that it's hard to draw the line where the OS ends, and then you're getting into territory where everyone relies upon a different subset of what's available which MS has been increasingly able to use to justify adding more 'essential' features for modern computing.

justsomehnguy 1y ago
> cool things™ instead of boring maintenance on a utilit You can't re-sell a boring utility every one/two/three years. Nobody wants it - not the top management (bonuses for the revenue growth), nor the middle management (bonuses for the succesful new projects), nor the guys who implements the things (reconginition for the new projects). Or talking simpler - KPI. And there is no 'we improved the stability for 0.0000002% of clients' indicator along with 'customers are happy with the thing we sold them in 2017'. And don't forget what it was some fruit company what even wasn't in the corporate which made it fashionable to have a 'totes new and refreshing experience (along with a hefty price tag)' every year or two.
- brianwawok 1y ago
  Stability, performance, security, all of this stuff doesn’t matter until it becomes a crisis, then it’s the most important thing in the world

userbinator 1y ago

don't know why they commit to especially the last part. MS thinks it knows better than you. It thinks its owns your data. Remember that this has happened before (7 years ago!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189139

numpad0 1y ago
I think what they think is that power users and above are rounding errors, so damages are always negligible. And one thing I know as a longtime MS "customer" is that things that would allow their employee to collect and display a decapitated head of another employee gets done lightning quick, otherwise never happens. I guess I should be trying to find a way to cause it, weird thing to do, though.