This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

    • @ebits21@lemmy.ca
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      242 years ago

      Or until you give up on the bullshit and just install Linux already (me 5 years ago).

    • @init@lemmy.ml
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      472 years ago

      But are you sure you don’t want to make Edge your default browser??

      • @CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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        292 years ago

        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.)

      • dditty
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        102 years ago

        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!

        • Natanael
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          Or another fun thing I recently saw at work, Microsoft changing Office programs to always open links in Edge by default so you have to edit a setting to make it open the default browser again - which caused a significant productivity loss when people suddenly had various intranet pages opened in a browser they were not logged into, and they all had to contact support to get the original sane behavior back.

          Microsoft is being run by marketing teams with hubris these days, there’s absolutely no way they’re testing these things with real humans before release.

    • @RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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      292 years ago

      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.

    • @Serinus@lemmy.world
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      162 years ago

      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.

    • @ebits21@lemmy.ca
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      82 years ago

      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.

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      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.

    • @Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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      52 years ago

      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.

  • @CeeBee@lemmy.world
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    562 years ago

    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.

    • @dafo@lemmy.world
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      162 years ago

      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).

    • @Gsus4@mander.xyz
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      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

      • @Kethal@lemmy.world
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        132 years ago

        If enough people did it, using a random method to select an option would also make the survey useless.

            • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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              62 years ago

              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.

          • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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            62 years ago

            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.

      • Ann Archy
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        32 years ago

        That is the one single sentence I have ever entered into an “other” box.

    • Ann Archy
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      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.

    • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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      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.

  • ares35
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    412 years ago

    if there’s a ‘fill in the blank’ after choosing ‘other’… their ‘ai’ is going to melt from the responses.

    • @burliman@lemm.ee
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      62 years ago

      Or just pick the first option, which is basically what this article is saying. I don’t want it running all the time.

      • Dran
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        152 years ago

        You already paid for windows; our default response should be to poison the survey not capitulate to also being the product.

  • @realitista@lemm.ee
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    412 years ago

    I’m okay with this as long as one of the options is

    “Because fuck you, that’s why.”

  • @nucleative@lemmy.world
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    402 years ago

    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.

    • TWeaK
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      162 years ago

      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.

    • SmokeyDope
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      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.

    • Hello Hotel
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      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

  • @SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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    302 years ago

    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?

  • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    282 years 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
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      22 years 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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        32 years 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.

  • @spiderkle@lemmy.ca
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    242 years ago

    It’s close to malware. I recently helped a friend with his Surface Pro; He had two instances of Onedrive as well as two of Teams running. One with his private Account and one with work & school. There just wasn’t an easy to find quit option for him anymore so everything was constantly running his battery dead and autostarting after rebooting.

    • @affiliate@lemmy.world
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      152 years ago

      why would you even want to use a computer if it doesn’t have at least two copies of teams and onedrive running at all times? is there even anything else to do on the computer (besides making Bing Searches of course)?

  • @vortexal@sopuli.xyz
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    242 years ago

    I know that this is just Microsoft trying get user feedback but because it’s Microsoft, it still seems bad. It’s just seems so disingenuous when a company like Microsoft, that usually ignores all user feedback, tries to get user feedback for a product that, if they actually listened to user feedback, they would already know that a majority of Windows users don’t want.

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      All this will do is make me force close the app and remove execute permissions for all users from the binary. Out of spite.

      • Ann Archy
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        Going under the hood to break stupid MS shit is what I mainly use computers for.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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        62 years ago

        You could also open its executable with a hex editor and mangle its header. That’d sure keep it from running, regardless of what anyone else on the computer fiddled with. Or being “helpfully” relaunched by the system, despite your efforts.

        Not sure if Windows Update would notice and overwrite the file. Maybe after you do this, mark it read only.