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Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself (www.theverge.com)
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This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What’s next? Hopefully, Microsoft won’t start injecting a poll at shutdown demanding to know why I’m turning my PC off for the day.

They already do this in Windows Server. Every unscheduled shutdown and restart requires a reason so it can be properly audited.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is logical for an enterprise-level application.

For a consumer-level app, this is balls.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless of course you don't actually own your PC. That's what Microsoft wants. Soon, they might make it so you can't install other OSes.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure that'll be fun for the IT guys.

"Why is our website down?!? What do I pay you people for?!"

"Sir, the subscription for our server OS wasn't paid because the company card was declined."

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As the other commenter said, this is a good precaution to have in a server OS. My FreeNAS/TrueNAS setup also require that.

For consumer OS, no it’s less than ideal, but for enterprise users it’s a very good feature to have