This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.
The enshittification will continue until morale improves.
Or until you give up on the bullshit and just install Linux already (me 5 years ago).
After leaving Windows I actually still get stressed just reading about stuff like this.
But are you sure you don’t want to make Edge your default browser??
Why do you think you need to download Chrome? Write a 500 word essay explaining how it’s better than Edge.
(For real, though, it’s not. Use Firefox.)
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Chrome? Why would you download that Google crap?
Did you not read my whole message?
So there’s also this neat feature in Microsoft Office where if you insert a hyperlink to a Google Doc/Sheets/Slides/Forms, Microsoft appends URIs to the end that prevents the link from opening in browsers other than Edge/IE. It can be corrected with a registry edit, but it’s been an issue for years and years at this point. Super annoying!
Oh you want to change the default app for a file extension? Here change it for all the extensions one by one by hand!
What do you mean you didn’t have to do this before? There’s no before!
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but the OS remains hostile against user choice.
That’s just it. Most of us probably work on our computers – imagine if you were a carpenter and your tools actively fought you. It’s about literal quality of life for me at this point.
The worst part is that if Raymond Chen is to be believed (author of The Old New Thing, work(ed) for Microsoft) this is the complete antithesis of what their philosophy was supposed to be in the Windows 96/98 era, which was “let the user have full control over how they want to use their computer.”
That shit went right out the window, didn’t it?
Why use Windows at that point?
My machine still has Windows 10, and ir can’t upgrade to Windows 11. The day they stop supporting Windows 10 is the day I’ll stop using Windows for good.
Kinda sad. I used to like to hate Windows, but I always knew that I could personally use it if needed. But ads? Telemetry? Non-uninstallable software again? They crossed a line.
In the same boat. I love seeing the message that my computer can’t upgrade to 11. “Oh no, what ever will I do?”
If you have to do stuff like that, it’s time the cut your losses and stop using windows.
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Yeah I understand. Hopefully the situation improves.
So my conclusion is, you can’t disbale anything unless Microsoft allows you to, yes you can have a less annoying experience with one of the tools I mentioned above, but the OS remains hostile against user choice.
Whats funny there, is people that are forced (I assume that’s the only reason you’d run it) to run Windows hate that shit, while at the same time the Apple cult embraces have zero control of their devices. They know best after all…
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Was this at all necessary? You used a generic meme format to reiterate the point someone else made, and because there’s no “hide images in comments” setting yet, it’s just distracting and taking up space.
God damn do I want RES back.
You seem fun.
He’s from… That other place.
I guarantee you your comment will annoy significantly more people.
Be the change you want to see. Make RES for Lemmy?
It is not the settings of your enterprise, the file savings mess is 100% on Microsoft. Imo learning to work with it is pointless, since it will be entirely changed sometime in the future again when Microsoft again tries to trick more people into using these programs in order to boost their quarterly statistics.
saving stuff in SharePoint in the background, permissions are annoying AF
The nice thing about this is that it told me when bosses were snooping around files that I’d never shared with them. I got an automated email from Sharepoint asking to give them permissions.
Same. I was so annoyed with windows slow, useless search at work (I search for pdfs all day) I just wrote a Python program that does that job much, much better.
What you are saying heavily echoes my challenge as a govt employee who uses Linux at home. Like why, when I select a folder to save something in, does it revert right back to the nebulous default one minute later? Unacceptable.
When saving a file in Word, Excel or whatever, the process looks some thing like this.
ctrl+s
“Save this file” dialogue appears, and it expects I want to dump everything into the root of OneDrive. Well, I don’t.
“Choose location” has some folders, none of which are what I want, because I tend to save my files pretty deep in the tree. Everything has a logical place, you know. I’m not one of those people who have a thousand files and 500 GB on the desktop. I like it neat and tidy.
Click “more options”. Now I can finally navigate to the specific folder I want. If you realize you actually need to create a new folder, this dialogue box isn’t for you. In order to do that, you need to go to “browse” where you’ll get the normal file dialogue box.
Can’t I just jump straight to the browse menu when I press ctrl+s? You know, like the way normal applications do it. Just try to save a file with Inkscape to see what I mean.
selects other
‘get fucked’
The only option anyone should select make their analytics useless.
If enough people did it, using a random method to select an option would also make the survey useless.
Very true, but being able to type fuck off would make it that much better.
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This. Force them to trawl through millions of reports all saying some variation of “Get fucked assholes”
Eh. If I were in charge of that, after the second or third one I found I’d just write a regex or something to find all the responses that contained profanity or a large proportion of profanity vs. word count, file those under “edgelord is angry at Microsoft,” and then just filter them out.
I’d highly doubt anyone would trawl them by hand. In fact, given how everyone is enamored of AI’s these days I’d doubt any actual person is trawling any of the results, regardless of what they are.
Typing “fuck off” would tell them exactly the reason, though. I think it would be much more beneficial (i.e. less beneficial for them) to select other and give no reason. Then they can’t make anything of it.
I want people to know.
Or give completely fake reasons.
I believe the exact wording should be “Because fuck you, that’s why”.
That is the one single sentence I have ever entered into an “other” box.
This exact same thing happens when trying to cancel a subscription. Magellan TV wouldn’t let me continue to cancel my subscription until I selected a reason for the cancellation.
So I exited the process and contacted support with the message “your website will not let me cancel without providing a reason”.
They replied with “you can just select a reason and then it will allow you to continue”
To which I said “and where’s the option to cancel without you holding my account hostage until I do what you demand of me?”
They replied with confirmation that they’ve cancelled my subscription for me.
It seems petty, but no company should be allowed to forcibly extract additional info out of you when you want to cancel. They can ask all they like, but never force.
Here in Sweden you can cancel a subscription however you wish (as long as it’s within reason). You can send a company snail mail, email, go by their office, phone, text, whatever reasonably reaches them. They’re not allowed to pull the “Oh, buy you have to call [number which leads to an antichurn department]” or “please tell us why” (but of course they’re gonna try anyway. If it’s an online form you usually have a “I don’t want to disclose why”-reason).
You could tell them that your dog made you do it because there aren’t enough shows about bitches, then the ball is on their court to act crazy :D
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Exactly, give them more nothing to analyze.
No no no no nooo. That is like answering your phone and telling your stalker that you will not talk to them. It only encourages them.
If you want to screw their analytics, choose Other and write something random in it.
All other fields go straight into meaningful numbers and it’s easy to automatically detect an empty Other and assign it to a generic category, but random text in Other has to be read and understood by a human to categorise (because you can’t yet automate the detection of randomness or meaningless, whilst you can easilly enough automate things like detection of swear words to classify it into “pissed off user”).
On the other hand an empty Other is the simplest fastest way to just go over an unecessary barrier like that if you just want to get done with it and aren’t trying to make a point.
if there’s a ‘fill in the blank’ after choosing ‘other’… their ‘ai’ is going to melt from the responses.
I know my response.
' UNION SELECT username, password FROM users--Or you could call good old Bobby Tables.
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“Bill Gates is trying to use OneDrive to install a chip in my brain.”
Or just pick the first option, which is basically what this article is saying. I don’t want it running all the time.
You already paid for windows; our default response should be to poison the survey not capitulate to also being the product.
You assume I paid for Windows.
I’m okay with this as long as one of the options is
“Because fuck you, that’s why.”
Literally what I write in every "Other reason: " box any time some rando software decides to entitle itself the privilege to open up browser pages on my machine.
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Extra points for using Microsoft products to do this.
Hey, Lemmy user in this thread: you’re likely in the top 0.1% expertise of all computer users worldwide.
This prompt is aimed at my boomer dad, who wouldn’t know what that funny icon is but read somewhere to close his apps for better speed. If his OneDrive docs disappear, I’ll get a call about it. At the same time, Microsoft probably can’t sell anything to my dad ever again, except his Office 365 subscription, so that makes him the product.
Microsoft is usually pretty good at letting tech users disable this kind of stuff with powershell commands or registry keys, which you already know how to do. And of course businesses join windows PCs to domains and disable this stuff centrally too.
Your stuff wouldn’t disappear if Microsoft didn’t keep stealing it and storing it on their servers, insteads of leaving it on your PC where it belongs.
This isn’t for your boomer dad, this is for Microsoft. You pay them for software, they steal your data. They’re literally worse than Facebook and Google now.
My parents are 60 years old and use mint daily. When my mom needs onedrive she just uses the web app through the internet browser. At this point its better for your boomer parents to move them to a OS where they aren’t a product and the corporate overlords won’t be able to fuck with their local files. the 99% of normal users only use their computers to boot into the internet browser, and every piece of software they use from banking to documents has a web-based front end, a FOSS alternative, or can be emulated with wine.
When you do what microsoft wants, they dont punish you. Microsoft have found a way to treat users like employees. Every company knows to punch an employee above the belt (by nesesity of a cruel world or optionally pretend its true), apologise, give them cake and pray they develop a relationship.
For those that whisper “union” to coworker, punch below the belt, look tough and walk away.
this is how Microsoft hates your non cooperation
They wont mess with buisnesses because they have too much power to abandon their product in mass and are generally aligned with Microsoft’s productification practices. However, users “dont have any power”.
Microsoft doesnt want users to turn these settings off, devorcing your computer as much as they will allow makes a “your device is not set up” screen to appear at login. Its a lie (or gross redefinition of “set up”). I would argue that it is designed to trick users into turning those fetures back on.
If you run a program or follow a guide to turn off settings in the registry, they have in the past, changed them back. users often dont check every setting to make sure they havent changed in the night.
Microsoft actively disrespected (and mabe still does) the “open urls/links in this app” menu, they give you their sales pitch on edge when switching the prefrence, they overrode the setting to always be edge or they did the above settings tampering
They’re training an internal AI on documents in OneDrive, I bet.
I feel like the EU needs to get on top of this
Of course you do…
Especially infuriating is that I use OneDrive for work and I’ve got it running all the time but Microsoft decided I need another instance of it running, that I then have to close every time it decides to start up again. What?
Can you disable it from launching at startup?
Probably, I just haven’t gotten annoyed enough about it to try yet.
Does selecting
Otherlet you enter in some freetext? Because this is begging for some nastygrams.That’s exactly what I intend to do.
Other: “Why the fuck do you feel entitled to MY information on a platform I BOUGHT. Get fucked Greedsoft. Once Linux can play any game I want I’m out faster than you can say: Windows 14 coming 2026.”
It’s not all games though and I keep hearing easy anticheat doesn’t like Linux at all. I don’t want to limit what I can play just to stick it to Greedsoft just yet and I’m a bit of a nerd for star citizen lol I can’t imagine that would work well.
Thanks for the link though! I’ll have to save that for later
EAC and Battleye both support Linux these days, it’s just a question of if the developer enables it in their games.
every game I play or want to play works pretty well on linux
some software tho (e.g photo editing, pcb design, video editing, etc.) doesn’t work on linux
but I don’t have enough storage to dualboot (128 gb) so I’m using Linux only
I switched from EndeavourOS with sway to kubuntu since KDE connect wasn’t working
But you didn’t buy it. You licensed it.
Yeah… Very true. It’s so fkn disgusting.
“You’ll own nothing, only The Wealthy™©® get to actually own anything.”
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.
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.
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.
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