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OneDrive - the most annoying app ever
Hello,
along with a new computer, I decided to switch from my older version of Office to a Microsoft 365 plan. I've been using OneDrive for a few years already like one uses any other storage device.
What Microsoft did with OneDrive within the Microsoft 365 package, though, is pure annoyance. In fact, I'm momentarily tempted to cancel Microsoft 365 and install my old Office 2010 again.
How can the developers think, any user would deem OneDrive the most important app ever developed in the whole universe? It's a storage device, people, not the cure for cancer, it's basically just a souped-up floppy disk. Why, then, does it push itself to the fore on all occasions like a prom queen with an inferiority complex?
The options to control OneDrive are plain abysmal. I don't want it to track every single activity on my computer and suck up every bit of data, so it fills rapidly with pieces of crap data I have to delete by hand later, stealing me hours of lifetime. Above all else I don't want it to display just everything on every starting screen available. Aren't you guys ashamed even using the term "data privacy" when there's not even an option to get rid of that annoying "last used" folder on the Office 356 starting screen? I don't want my coworkers look over my shoulder and see I've just written an application, a resignation or a dismissal for Tom. That's basic data privacy!
At it's momentary form, Microsoft 365 is more a problem than a solution for anything. Please, add some basic privacy options before you think about promoting this total indiscretion device. And find a solution for OneDrive to better control auto-save, so not every piece of junk data is stuffed to it.
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I still want to know what genius decided to hack it automatically backup desktop icons, when users have PCs for different purposes, especially "developers"? Not to mention there are applications that store data in the My Documents folder that aren't necessary for "every" PC that someone is using. The same goes for larger video files. MS should have a user that is not on a corporate machine with specified requirements be allowed to select a One Drive share folder "first" and sync "afterwards. While there are at it copy the Google Drive interface and features and make this application usable for home PCs that are not connected to a corporate network. Corporate networks makes sense, since these users have specified applications across the board and need to constantly reference files in the My Documents folder, making it useful and not something that is going to result in random icons popping up that lead to a black hole. However the next version should give users the ability to select a shared folder and be done with it.
OneDrive may be the excuse we were all looking for to stop using Windows and all things Microsoft.
I couldn't agree more. It is one of most worthless piece of "feature" microsoft added. It is more annoying than useful.
