[wartywhoa23]

>One drive is an insanely poorly implemented solution to a problem nobody really had.

I highly doubt that the need to steal as much data and media from people to train AI was a problem nobody really had.

[Scroll_Swe]

You are conflating private OneDrive with enterprise Office 365 Sharepoint based solution.

Also that came out 10-13 years ago... way before AI. Why are people on this site such midwits?

[SirFatty]

I guess because the general hatred of Microsoft interferes with people's ability to think logically.

[eks391]

> hatred of Microsoft interferes with people's ability to think logically

100%. I fall in the 'I hate MS (and Apple, and Google, and...)' crowd myself. I lose brain cells every time I have to use MS products, so I definitely make nonlogical statements about these companies sometimes. I admit that my biasies are strong and one can't fully trust my opinion when I talk about these companies. But I do try to lace mostly truth, even if I exaggerate.

[wartywhoa23]

> Also that came out 10-13 years ago... way before AI.

Do you think AI training and preceding data vacuuming started yesterday? Was there no "Big Data" hype immediately before LLMs took off?

> Why are people on this site such midwits?

Address this question to a mirror.

[Scroll_Swe]

I get the irony lmao

But Big Data was just a large SQL set for companies internally. Usually. The sinister part would be adverts and tracking I guess if that is what you are fishing for.

[pezgrande]

I'd guess it is more about making companies paying more and higher subs than training data.

[Scroll_Swe]

Standard sub gives 1TB per user.

Laptop drives are still 256 or 512GB in office work.

No real need to pay for "higher subs"

[expedition32]

It's about pushing subs in the first place. Normal people don't need it they can save stuff to their HD/SSD like they've been doing for the last 30 years.

But here comes Microsoft enabling OneDrive by default. How many tech illiterate folks have been pushed into paying for 365? Fuck MS.

[Scroll_Swe]

I am talking about companies to be precise.

Office 365 was and is a godsend compare to running Exchange and massive SANs on-prem...

They knew this so Office 365 at first was literally only email at first so people could stop having OWA on prem open to the web.