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OneDrive users around the world have been upset to discover that with its latest update, Microsoft's cloud file syncing and storage system no longer works with anything other than disks formatted with the NTFS file system. Both older file systems, such as FAT32 and exFAT, and newer ones, such as ReFS, will now provoke an error message when OneDrive starts up.
To continue to use the software, files will have to be stored on an NTFS volume. While FAT disks can be converted, ReFS volumes must be reformatted and wiped. This has left various OneDrive users unhappy. While NTFS is the default file system in Windows, people using SD cards to extend the storage on small laptops and tablets will typically use exFAT. Similarly, people using Storage Spaces to manage large, redundant storage volumes will often use ReFS. The new policy doesn't change anything for most Windows users, but those at the margins will feel hard done by.
In a rather odd statement made to OnMSFT, Microsoft said that it "discovered a warning message that should have existed was missing when a user attempted to store their OneDrive folder on a non-NTFS filesystem—which was immediately remedied." The company's position, apparently, is that OneDrive should always have warned about these usage scenarios and that it's only a bug or an oversight that allowed non-NTFS volumes to work.
Source: Ars Technica
(Score: 4, Interesting) by SDRefugee on Saturday July 08 2017, @01:15AM (3 children)
The amount of abuse that Microsoft inflicts on those who, for WHATever reason, *still* use MS products is truly mindnumbing.. Having ended my reliance on MS products over 7 years ago, and now I don't worry about what new idiocy MS has for me, and my computers and more importantly, my computers are now MY computers... Somebody's gotta say it "SCREW YOU MICROSOFT!!"
America should be proud of Edward Snowden, the hero, whether they know it or not..
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Saturday July 08 2017, @01:37AM
Or so CIA/NSA like you to believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Saturday July 08 2017, @09:30AM
Which has been going on for so long now that the abuse can be considered to be self inflicted.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @07:46PM
i only recently upgraded from xp to 7. I dont expect to change from 7 unless it's to windows (or even the steam os, if that gets to be any good -- for a gaming desktop, anyway).
its true I miss out on.. a hell of a lot of stuff on the 'modern web' -- but my OS doesnt have an advertising ID, and my firewall blocks all that vortex.microsoft whatever data collection stuff -- and it rarely even gets blocked because windows 7 just wasn't built from the ground up to screw you based on business interests.
even when they cut security support... I will have a hard time letting go. maybe I will end up running my various desktops as images within a VM on the same hardware, with some linux host OS as the main operating system (xen or vmware or similar).
it still doesnt fix the whole need working primary OS issue. emulating only gets you so far and all the new hardware seems to have windows specific power modes and crap that "needs windows 10" to support.
anyway i am prepared for disappointment.