It seems often they are too close to the trees to see the forest.Will someone please tell Microsoft that the best marketing is a stellar, friction-less product that even an old person can understand without their grandchildren explaining it. But god get their marketing people out of tech development! I've often wondered if people who work in management, especially executive management, at Microsoft even think about the user experience. Other cloud systems feel riskier to me because who knows if they will even exist a few years from now. What's that about? Still, in order to stay out of Google's Clueless ecosystem, I am using OneDrive. And by god, it is the slowest cloud service I've ever used. It is not a logically organized system for the most part. Dual documents folders is just one example. Gmalone said:Though I will take Windows over Apple any day of the week, it has become disheartening to see such glaring evidence of poor design, especially when it comes to OneDrive implementation. Listen, why don't you try and improve OneDrive with cool new features and grow Microsoft 365 via its merits rather than these hard-coded, manipulative ads that you are increasingly reluctant to let us hide? Why don't you fix the fact OneDrive for Android keeps uploading screenshots despite the fact I keep telling it not to? Why don't you invest in some normal, traditional marketing like every other company on Earth? There's a hilarious box that pops up if you search "Google" in Bing too, which just adds a second search bar to remind users of the search bar that is literally 50 pixels above it. This extends to the begging tone of messages you get if you dare try to move your default browser from Microsoft Edge to something else, or if you change your default search engine. You got me already, Microsoft, why are you still trying to bait me with these weird, desperate messages? I already subscribe to Microsoft 365, and I have done so for years, which is why it's all the more annoying that these "ads" are impacting me. This really touches upon a wider problem of Microsoft urging users to spend money on its platform. (Image credit: Windows Central | Bing Image Creator) I do not want to sync the Desktop "folder," since it is not for storage. The desktop is purely for nice photographs and temporary moving of files as they travel to greener, more organized pastures. I know some people maintain an absurd and cluttered desktop full of random folders, shortcuts from apps that haven't been used in years, and cat pictures. ![]() To a lesser extent, this applies to the Desktop as well. The minute I start syncing it, random folders and files are going to pop up in my OneDrive, sync at random since the usage of the local Documents folder is the Windows app equivalent of the Wild West. I do not want to sync your stupid local Documents folder, and I am tired of being asked to do so. And it spits in the face of the pristinely organized Documents folder I have been maintaining in OneDrive for years upon years. ![]() My Documents folder is thus full of random Steam game save files, huge, storage-gobbling temporary data from Adobe Premier, and a random "Backup" folder from your own PowerToys which serves literally no purpose, amongst other random bullshit. Do you know why it's full of garbage? It's because at some point, Microsoft, you asked app developers to start storing temporary files in the local "Documents" folder. Listen, my Documents folder, like most people, is full of garbage. It would at least make some vague modicum of sense if I wasn't a subscriber, but asking me to change my habits so you can get a deeper look into the inner workings of my PC is insulting. ![]() It's then all the more maddening that Microsoft increasingly begs me to sync my Documents and my local Pictures folders, despite the fact I already have cloud versions of these folders, and despite the fact I am a paying subscriber.
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