![]() Better yet, I can share Excel spreadsheets or Word documents with other people, all without having to email files back and forth or worry about mismatched versions, etc. There’s a small delay in opening or closing documents, but apart from that, it’s transparent. You know, just to see how this whole cloud-storage thing would work out.Īnd, to my everlasting surprise, it worked pretty well. For a couple of years now I’ve stored a small subset of my documents on OneDrive. I resisted this for a while, but eventually relented and stuck my toe in the water. OneDrive is always the default Save To… location, and you have to deliberately navigate away from it to locate your standard My Documents folder on your PC, or anywhere else in your file system. Microsoft makes it really clear through its Office apps like Word and Excel that it wants you to store all your files on OneDrive in the cloud, not on your PC. Since my primary computer’s hard drive (okay it’s an SSD) is smaller than 1TB, I could back up absolutely everything on my system for free. Second, each of those five Office installations comes with its own 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage. First, you get five copies of all the Office apps, not just one, which you can share with anyone you like. Where to begin with this horror show? I have an Office 365 subscription, which comes with two very nice features. ![]() I can’t help but think of a rude word that starts with “cluster-.” So, it is with some amount of tough love that I say… OMFG, OneDrive is a mess. I mix it up with MacOS, Linux, iOS, FreeNAS, and various embedded OSen just to keep myself honest, but Windows is my go-to platform for getting stuff done. It’s easy to bash the software giant, but I’ve always kinda preferred using Windows systems for work. “OneDrive is up to date,” it says on my screen. “The future is already here - it’s just not very evenly distributed.” – William Gibson
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