This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This is the software giant equivalent of the Simpsons out of touch meme.

    They’re frantically looking for why nobody likes them while they’re aggressively doing the thing that nobody likes them because of.

    IMO, this is a bit like having a fellow student in your same grade in highschool who asked you out on the first day of class despite not really even knowing your name and when you declined, they asked you why every day for the entire year, and no matter what you said, they would still ask again tomorrow, because your answer never satisfied them.

    Listen to me Microsoft, you have a few winners, like Windows, maybe office/365 for the business folks (though, formerly, it was exchange), and a few other gems. Don’t ruin the reputation you still have for making half decent operating systems by turning them into an ex that just won’t stop calling… IMO, this whole thing started when you axed MSN Messenger, and forcibly merged it into Skype, rather than bringing clever upgrades from the Skype codebase over to messenger. Everything went downhill from there. Even teams is still tainted by the Skype for business shenanigans that happened. You messed up. Stop irritating the clientele that you still have and give it a rest. Just make a good operating system, and focus on innovation. I haven’t seen any of that from you folks since the release of the NT kernel; it’s all been predictable iterative changes.

    Back the hell off.

    • Koordinator O@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That comparison is missing a bit. That fellow student is not just asking you. He asks everyone and sure enough there are some willing to say yes. That is the problem. There are still enough such people so its worth for them. They don’t care about the no sayers. Who cares if you are anoyed if the next five people say yes? So no. They will never back off. Only when the numbers turn red. And then they probably will find an even worse system instead of improving.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        They don’t care about the no sayers.

        OP’s article would imply that they do. There’s literally no other reason to do what they’ve done with OneDrive. They’ve given a list of reasons that they find to be “the only possible reasons why you would reject such an amazing program”, and given you no other options. Historically, yeah, that’s been the case, you don’t want it, fine… and they go and sell it to someone who does; but this isn’t that. This is pestering you as to why you don’t like them and no answer YOU provide is good enough; only if you fit into their little boxes, is your answer “good enough”… for now.