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I consider everyone still using Windows by now to be masochists of the worst kind.
Who would want to have backups of important files on a Microsoft server? Probably located in the USA, where it's contents are free game for the snooping agencies? If you are not a US citizen (and even that is no real protection) they will hoover every byte about you "just in case".
Same people who already use OneDrive since that's all "backup" means here.
Yup. $100/year for all the office apps/programs plus 1TB of backup for all 6 people in my family. Decent deal IMO since I'm paying at least that for PS+ yearly.
All I’ve wanted for a decade is a built-in backup solution to rival Time Machine but noOOoooO…
I had OneDrive randomly dump a chunk of my files into the website Recycle Bin so I never touched it again. (Yes I know user error is the usual thought but I would have known about dragging multiple things from different folders since at the time all my photos, documents, etc were up there.)
File History I still use but that’s janky, occasionally crashes in the Settings (this is on multiple machines with W10, haven’t touched 11) and wouldn’t backup iCloud Drive. (which I’ve since dumped too since I have a glitch support hasn’t been able to fix that results in broken sync in iCloud for Windows and rapidly ballooning logs)
I’m wondering if it’s even backing up files or just saving to cloud which isn’t a backup.
You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it
Not exactly true, there are ways you can remove system components, what they really mean is that Microsoft Doesn't want you to and will fight you as much as possible to prevent you from doing so. The biggest barrier in doing it is that you'll have to figure out your way through it on your own because it's "not supported" and most people won't give help or support for these kinds of modifications.
This isn't new
Seriously, look at the link. If you want to use an external drive, for example, or a different cloud account, it's a different process and the settings are buried several layers deep.
If the new app were like the old versatile backup tool you picture here, there would be no issue.
And here is the CEO complaining that Google uses unfair policies to push it's apps. Fuck both of them.
