@jon What I'm increasingly annoyed by is how Windows...

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@jon What I'm increasingly annoyed by is how Windows has become "nag-ware."

Screenshot shows a OneDrive backup "important notification" that won't go away on Windows 11. And my wife pays for Office 365 for both of us.

So even after we pay for the service, they still nag us to back things up on OneDrive. Which I don't want to do. I've yet to find a way to disable this.

There's also a persistent nag on the system tray icon that won't go away for this.

The net result is that if there ever is an important notification, I'd never know. Because the notifications have become completely useless.

Like 1 April at 16:52 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.vivaldi.net

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Methylzero

@louiskhor @jon I bet someone who is pirating Office is free from this burden. You wouldn't download a car, am I right?

1 April at 17:01 | Open on mast.hpc.social

:blobcatlaptop: gravitos :blobcatcomfsip:

@Methylzero @louiskhor @jon they show it to everyone they can, including people who they don't want to get payments from. like me. if i bother to open that notification, i get a "Hey, this service is unavailable in your general area" and the funny dot does NOT go away

2 April at 5:57 | Open on wetdry.world

Jon S. von Tetzchner

@louiskhor , indeed, it is unacceptable. Now in Europe that DMA forces Microsoft to allow people to uninstall OneDrive. Sadly that is not worldwide at this time and I still think the choice to use OneDrive should be opt-in and not pushed.

1 April at 17:06 | Open on social.vivaldi.net

Let'sAbolishBorderControls

@jon @louiskhor

Thinking of going back to linux tbh

1 April at 17:14 | Open on mastodonapp.uk

Chaotic Natural 20

@jon
That reminds me of a toot I saw a while ago that suggested that you tell Win that you live in the EU when setting up...
@louiskhor

2 April at 0:02 | Open on tech.lgbt

Brian Moakley

@louiskhor @jon This has got to be a company wide mandate. When I had an Xbox Series X, I kept receiving marketing notifications that I could not disable.

Same happened with Gamepass on PC to the point I just let it expire. Now I just use Windows to launch Steam.

1 April at 20:27 | Open on mastodon.social