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Jez Corden

Dear Microsoft: STOP asking me to OneDrive sync my local folders — it's stupid

Angry pixel man holding a Windows PC logo laptop

Microsoft doesn't think I'm using OneDrive correctly, and it's getting annoying. 

I'm not sure if anyone at Microsoft actually uses Windows 11, but the efforts to degrade the user experience with "ads" in the shell are increasingly annoying. Microsoft has faced backlash for putting "recommendations" everywhere in Windows 11, decreasing a sense of ownership over the Surface Pro, laptop or desktop you may have spent a ton of cash to buy. Whether it's the lockscreen, search bar, or File Explorer itself, Microsoft seems hellbent on annoying users off its platform for some reason, and it's tiring.

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