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Microsoft: Try Bing for a week, get 100 GB of OneDrive cloud storage

"for one year". It's basically a 1-year trial that requires a lot of hoop-jumping.

There was a very brief promo, on the day the OneDrive rebranding launched, where the first 10K users who signed in got a free 100GB upgrade; that reached the redemption limit in about an hour. Not sure if that's for just one year or if it's permanent.
 
I have 25gb with them, but don't use it. They have inconvenient file size limitations, and they're one of the worst companies at poking through your documents, and even banning accounts if they don't like what they see.

Also, what's up with the continuously changing names with their stuff?! If people aren't using your products, it's probably because they suck. Changing the name isn't gonna get people using crappy products/services.
 
I'd rather not have to jump through hoops to work around the extra clicks OneDrive adds as it is. The last thing I want is storage from them. Dropbox and the like stay out of the way if not in use, and just overlay a folder.
 
lxskllr said:
I have 25gb with them, but don't use it. They have inconvenient file size limitations, and they're one of the worst companies at poking through your documents, and even banning accounts if they don't like what they see.

Also, what's up with the continuously changing names with their stuff?! If people aren't using your products, it's probably because they suck. Changing the name isn't gonna get people using crappy products/services.
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nemesismk2 said:
I didn't release that at first too, i do however really like Microsoft Bing but it's just not as good as Google.
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What pervades on cable: people pitching products at apparently good prices. What you not get immediately, cause it's in very tiny print, is, they all have AUTO DELIVERY forever by default. They say you can cancel that at any time. Good luck with that part, complains all over the net.
 
Cerb said:
I'd rather not have to jump through hoops to work around the extra clicks OneDrive adds as it is. The last thing I want is storage from them. Dropbox and the like stay out of the way if not in use, and just overlay a folder.
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I personally, don want cloud anything from anyone. At any price. Including the $5 a month RCN, my provider recently brought forth with unlimited storage. Why anyone thinks that's safe, I do not get. i do not care if my devices are integrated someplace in the sky. I don like any of it; I don trust any of it.

There are far better backup strategies with no downsides!
 
I'm happy with just their lowly 10GB as it is. I have a home server that gives me access to all my stuff, so OneDrive just provides a place to upload any pics I find and want to share with friends.
 
Cerb said:
I'd rather not have to jump through hoops to work around the extra clicks OneDrive adds as it is. The last thing I want is storage from them. Dropbox and the like stay out of the way if not in use, and just overlay a folder.
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Extra clicks? Have you even used SkyDrive/OneDrive? It acts just like a folder on your hard drive. With W8.1, it integrates perfectly and allows you to pull down cached versions to work with, too. I've NEVER had OneDrive be in my way.
 
blurredvision said:
Extra clicks?
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Yes, to save to the last place I actually saved something. It keeps resetting itself as the default save location, and the little systray gadget keeps popping up tooltips.
Have you even used SkyDrive/OneDrive?
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If by having it as the default save option, seemingly randomly becoming default, in Office programs, and the aforementioned systray annoyances count as using it, then yes. Otherwise, no.
 
Cerb said:
Yes, to save to the last place I actually saved something. It keeps resetting itself as the default save location, and the little systray gadget keeps popping up tooltips.

If by having it as the default save option, seemingly randomly becoming default, in Office programs, and the aforementioned systray annoyances count as using it, then yes. Otherwise, no.
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So it sounds like your problem is with the Office 2013, not OneDrive.
 
blurredvision said:
So it sounds like your problem is with the Office 2013, not OneDrive.
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Since one comes with the other, both. That pushy implementation of integration is enough for me not want to try voluntarily using it. It's like toolbars that hitchhike, but without a clear opt-out in the installer, nor, for that matter, any uninstall option. Why would you want to use a service that installs itself like that? Their distribution and presentation matters.
 
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Cerb said:
Since one comes with the other, both. That pushy implementation of integration is enough for me not want to try voluntarily using it. It's like toolbars that hitchhike, but without a clear opt-out in the installer, nor, for that matter, any uninstall option. Why would you want to use a service that installs itself like that? Their distribution and presentation matters.
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They don't come with each other. Office does not include OneDrive service, it only defaults to a OneDrive save location but this is easily changed to default somewhere else on your computer. When you sign up for a Microsoft account and use that to login to Office 2013 (which is optional unless you're using Office 365), that account is what comes with OneDrive storage.

It sounds to me like your problem with Office, not OneDrive, is easily fixed. Not liking the new Office is fine (I find it mostly irrelevant for most users) but to blame it on OneDrive is a bit silly.

As far as the system tray icon, are you talking about the OneDrive icon that was just added within the past couple of weeks to W8.1? The OneDrive app on other OSs did include a systray icon but you had to actually install it. If you don't like it, you can uninstall it (or disable the icon, I think). If you're referring to the Office "cloud" icon that installs with Office 2013, that can be disabled too.
 
And, if the two were so easy to separate, that would be fine. But, if SkyDrive Pro is not selected, updates are adding it back (probably an artifact of the Skydrive->OneDrive name change), but it's not uninstallable, and a repair finds no problems. If MS going to do things like that, where it looks like GPOs are the only sure way to get around it, when it should have just not been there to begin with, their presentation of the feature makes the feature quite suspect, and the service it is associated with also suspect, and not desirable.

You don't get a 2nd chance to make a 1st impression, and that's how they decided to make it. Just as I would avoid McAfee on account of Security Scan Plus...

I only sparsely use 8.1, so I don't know if it's the same icon, but it's not the Office one.
 
Microsoft. So desperate. I can smell the desperation.
They always offer all manner of inducements to use their search. I tried Bong the other day and you accumulate points or rewards for searching. Back before MS renamed it "Bing" (forgotten the name) they had word games where it automatically searched every time you spelled a word. So every player was searching. Endlessly searching. 🙄 No doubt Microsoft stripped this bogus traffic from their usage figures, just to be fair to advertisers. Right???

:hmm: Probably just stress testing their search engine ... yeah, that's it.
 
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