The way this is pushed on users is a bit aggressive, and I'm glad the EU is looking into it. They should look into the recent behavior with Edgium and Teams in Windows 11 as well. Simply making it...
The way this is pushed on users is a bit aggressive, and I'm glad the EU is looking into it. They should look into the recent behavior with Edgium and Teams in Windows 11 as well. Simply making it easier for users to turn these things off would probably make the regulatory scrutiny go away.
For anyone who wants to disable OneDrive integration completely, there are a couple of options.
For Pro and higher editions of Windows, it can be disabled in the group policy editor: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> OneDrive -> Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage -> Enabled
For everyone else, there are two registry keys to modify. Look for System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree in both HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6} and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6} and change the value to 0.
If MS made the simple step of moving this to the settings app (for all editions of Windows), they probably wouldn't be facing trouble with the EU over it. I don't think people mind their OS providing default options for common applications (browser, email client, cloud storage), just let us turn it off an bring our own solutions.
The way this is pushed on users is a bit aggressive, and I'm glad the EU is looking into it. They should look into the recent behavior with Edgium and Teams in Windows 11 as well. Simply making it easier for users to turn these things off would probably make the regulatory scrutiny go away.
For anyone who wants to disable OneDrive integration completely, there are a couple of options.
For Pro and higher editions of Windows, it can be disabled in the group policy editor: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> OneDrive -> Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage -> Enabled
For everyone else, there are two registry keys to modify. Look for
System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTreein bothHKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}andHKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}and change the value to 0.If MS made the simple step of moving this to the settings app (for all editions of Windows), they probably wouldn't be facing trouble with the EU over it. I don't think people mind their OS providing default options for common applications (browser, email client, cloud storage), just let us turn it off an bring our own solutions.