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Microsoft being annoying about advertisements, compelled surveys, or pushy polls is nothing new. You would possibly keep in mind once they began rolling out advertisements within the Home windows 11 Begin menu. These appeared within the guise of ‘notifications’ repeatedly convincing customers to start out utilizing Microsoft’s companies corresponding to OneDrive. Additionally they tried sticking some advertisements within the Home windows 11 Settings menu. Once more, these got here within the type of not-so-gentle reminders that insisted you begin utilizing, as an example, Microsoft 365.
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They’re again at it with an analogous tactic. Each time you give up OneDrive in your PC, you will need to take a survey on why you selected to shut the app. It sounds suffocating, proper?
As quickly as you hit the shut button, you get a pop-up saying, “Stop OneDrive?” Should you shut OneDrive, information in your OneDrive folder received’t sync or again as much as the cloud, so that you simply received’t see your adjustments throughout units.” Then, you see a dropdown that claims, “Choose a purpose for quitting OneDrive.” These are the explanations you must decide from.
I don’t need OneDrive working all of the timeI don’t know what OneDrive isI don’t use OneDriveI’m making an attempt to repair an issue with OneDriveI’m making an attempt to hurry up my computerI get too many notificationsOther
On the backside, the same old ‘Cancel’ choice would take you again to utilizing this case when you change your thoughts about closing it. There’s additionally a ‘Stop OneDrive’ button, however, after all, that’s grayed out and solely turns into clickable when you select one of many listed causes for daring to give up the app. That’s as pushy as they’ll get.
I’m certain that Microsoft hopes information from these surveys could have some worth in serving to enhance the OneDrive expertise. Right here’s hoping, at the least.