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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by gruez on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:05PM (#30390387)
I doubt it, considering that Microsoft only gives you 5GB of storage for free. Anyone with non-trivial amounts of documents will quickly blow through this. What the parent poster is talking about is probably the onedrive folder, which probably gets automatically set up when you sign in with your microsoft account.
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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by ryan29 on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:46PM (#30390843)
They have some dirty tricks they use to “convince” users to put all their files in OneDrive. The main one is making it seem like a backup or something the user forgot to set up (“protect your files”), so a lot of users fall for it.

Files on demand is a way to make people dependent and the low quota is to get them onto a subscription.

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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by robbedpeter on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:47PM (#30390858)
And everything defaults to saving files in that folder. Saving locally is made intentionally difficult, and the setting is regularly reset to one drive after updates.

So yeah, Microsoft basically saves all your documents to the cloud, even after trying very hard to disable that possibility.

Windows 11 is the proverbial straw for my camel. It's hostile and aggressive, and I don't need to fight with my computer.

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