In addition to monthly reminders to use Microsoft Edge and Microsoft 365, Windows 11 now recommends using OneDrive. A recent Windows Update triggers a full-screen pop-up for OneDrive, which looks like the OOBE (out-of-the-box experience) that typically pops up when you install Windows 11 for the first time.
First spotted by Windows Latest, Windows 11 has a new pop-up titled “Let’s back up your files,” which appears automatically when you start your PC.
It’s worth noting that OneDrive’s free storage is limited to 5GB, so you need to buy storage to use the Windows Backup feature. It isn’t practically possible to backup your complete PC to OneDrive in the long run unless you have empty folders.
Also, if you do manage to skip the OneDrive pop-up when booting Windows, you’ll see another notification that warns your PC that it is not fully backed up with an alert icon.
It isn’t possible to pause or remove these alerts and full-screen pop-ups in Windows 11 if you live outside the European Union.
Friendly reminder that Linux is free and respects your ownership of your computer.
Windows free since XP
This is like someone in a UFO sub reminding people about Roswell
Yeah, we know.
Think you’re preaching to the choir on that one
Could’ve mentioned Arch Linux specifically though.
People never mention Arch Linux around these parts …
Switched to Linux earlier this year when I saw the end of Windows 10 support coming. I haven’t looked back since.
I don’t miss that “not for now” or “maybe later” being the only option beside “yes” in prompts.
You may think Linux users are annoying but to be fair Microsoft is frankly begging for the “btw you should use linux” comments with every new windows update
The more users switch to linux, the more windows will need to cater to those users to get them to come back.
As someone who recently made the switch, and felt the immediate relief when I started using an OS that wasn’t actively fighting me, I can’t foresee what Windows could possibly do to convince me to go back. If my distro enshittifies I’ll just switch to a different distro. Fuck the corpos.
Fuck the corpos!!!
Spot a child.
Also recently made the switch, and I agree.
The language in the fucking pop up. “Skip for now”, implying that at some nebulous future date it won’t be an option.
Eat my whole ass, Bill Microsoft.
It’s called “dark process” and is utilized by so many companies these days.
Think you mean dark patterns.
My first job straight out of uni was a “Marketing Experience Designer” which translated into looking at the company’s product offering and writing papers on where and what dark patterns can be used and to whom.
There’s a special place in hell for people like me 😟 was broke and needed the job.
I worked as a telemarketer in college to pay rent. I know exactly how you feel.
One of the first things I did was remove OneDrive when I installed W11.
I have yet to see any of this new malarky, and I am not in the EU.
From a admin command prompt:
winget uninstall Microsoft.OneDriveIf you have linked an account to OneDrive, I’d advise you unlink it first.
Stop fucking bugging me OS! Junkmail, spam, junk phone calls, junk sms, notification abuse on smartphone apps. It really adds the hell up and this kind of shit coming from something I paid to install is infuriating.
would you like to SUPERSIZE your OS subscription?
Let’s improve your experience
Sit back, relax, we’re taking the wheel here to once again shove our subscription products down your esophagus. Would you be so inclined as to now use New Outlook, OneDrive, Microsoft Office, Telemetry (just kidding, we make it mandatory and give you the illusion of choice), Edge and our sponsors Candy Crush? We thought you would, so we’ve set these as your default apps. For instance, we have decided for you that Edge was what you actually needed instead of LibreWolf, which cane from an unknown source.
Thanks again, we will come again in next month’s update!
I Cant even laugh at this. Too soon.
Don’t forget Skype for Business doing the weird half-sign on thing and then starting Teams which nags you to switch to Teams (New).
the EU should put all these companies through the fucking WRINGER. better yet, the States can help regulate them! imagine all the power massive tech corpos would lose if the EU and the US worked together to bring them down. then the EU’s regulations would also apply basically anywhere else, since tech companies watch the US market the closest (and they can’t afford to lose this market unless they… idk, move to China)
Or better yet consumers could stop supporting shitty companies and use alternatives instead, seeing as we’re listing fantasies…
as if they can even move to China, its market is already dominated by domestic replacements for everything
damn, you’re right. India then, maybe? i don’t know how reliable the Indian market is, because i don’t know much about India (Bharat? when are they going through with the name change)
Man they’re really making the case for me to keep using Windows 10
Windows is just a loss leader to sell your data and other products at the point.
Last time I booted up Win 10 to game I got a full screen ad for Windows 11. When hitting the button to exit, the button disappeared and the whole machine froze and eventually crashed. (Although that crash might have been somewhat hardware related)
And shit like this is why I just installed Linux Mint on my mother’s PC. No issues so far.
But what about her PC though?
Time to be broken up for real this time.
Now? I think I’ve had this show up long ago.
Does Pro not do this type of shit? I can’t really remember when I saw onedrive after my initial deactivation and uninstall spree on my machine…
It must. I’m using 11pro and never see any of these ads
Pro doesn’t reduce ad amounts IME.
10 pro did way more obnoxious anti-consumer shit than I could tolerate. It still regularly ignored and reverted settings.
Since 11 has become even more hostile I’m guessing pro still sucks hard.
Your resistence only makes my customisation harder!
