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UtopiaPunk ◴[] No.45042690[source]
Probably a good move on Microsoft's part, tbh. Not great for society, but good for Microsoft.

I find it annoying because I often just want a document to live on a local device, and I'll decide when I want to upload it to a cloud service. But a lot of normal, non-tech people don't have any concept of how data is stored on their devices. I can't tell you how many times I've encountered a situation that roughly goes,

"Did you download the file?" "I guess so." "Okay. Now go the file and open it." "Where is it?" "I don't know. Where did you download it? "I don't know!"

For a lot of normies, just saving the document in the cloud is going to be easier. The ironic thing is that now I'm the one who is annoyed because I have no idea where my document is saved.

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1. UtopiaPunk ◴[] No.45042719[source]
In practice, I do keep a OneDrive account because I find the service useful. But I run Ubuntu on my primary computer, and really only interact with OneDrive when I feel like it through a web browser. I feel much more in control of my own computer and my own data.