[PaulHoule]

Calls those ads is dignifying them.

Microsoft kills products this way. In Win 8 they killed OneNote which was a pretty good product by pinning 3 icons for it in the task bar. And putting it in all kinds of context menus, and putting it in as a printer, and trying to stuff it up your nose. It had a decent XML file format that I could extract content from but what really killed it for me was when it went cloud only and those files went away.

Then there is the strange case of SkyDrive, that they failed to run a trademark search on before launching, so they had to rename it to OneDrive. They set the default for Office to save to OneDrive. Well once I forgot to save elsewhere and OneDrive wasn’t working so I couldn’t save. And this is a product that is always harassing me about some document I didn’t save 5 years ago. That’s not how you kill a product, that is how you kill it, kill it again and kill it once more.

[axus]

Recently I tried enabling "Syncing to OneDrive", to see what would happen. Documents, Desktop, and Pictures were moved up a level into "OneDrive - LongCompanyName.com" folder, those have become the preferred file save destination, and the original folders emptied out.

A lot of time is spent synching to the cloud. Also, "Date modified" metadata was all reset at the time of transition, so distinguishing "pre-OneDrive" files by date is not a thing anymore.