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Re:Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 6 for Business and Surf... by vizzier on Friday March 22, 2024 @01:07PM (#39792722)
> ...can't stop trying to upsell people into using onedrive, forcefully signs you into onedrive, syncs your local files into their cloud without consent, tries really hard to not let you sign in with a local account and most likely does other shady things.

This portion of the complaint was a playbook that was defined by Apple and icloud. Feels like an out of the frying pan into the fire situation.

Re:Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 6 for Business and Surf... by charlie0 on Friday March 22, 2024 @01:35PM (#39792958)
You can use Mac without icloud. They don't push it nearly as hard as Windows.
Re:Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 6 for Business and Surf... by m463 on Friday March 22, 2024 @02:21PM (#39793307)
On the other hand apple collects lots of telemetry out of sight.