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You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users (gadgettendency.com)

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You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users::Like it or not, the Windows Backup app installed in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is here to stay, with Microsoft calling it a "system component" that can't be

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why should I waste hard drive space that I paid for to store a component that I neither require nor utilize? If I'm already on a machine that is pretty close to my drive limitations (and I am), why should I simply accept further reduction in my computer's capabilities?

This was the same argument Microsoft made about Internet Explorer during the antitrust lawsuit. Yet somehow, when faced with the possibility of a forced split, they managed to find a way.

[–] vector_zero@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Realistically, you're probably not utilizing a good 90% of your operating system's features on Windows. Is this backup crap good? No, but it's also a drop in a bucket.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but stuff like defrag, etc. are there for good reasons, and I'll be glad to have them if I ever do need them. Onedrive and Backup are literally only there to make Microsoft money, and having them on my system will never be of benefit to me.

[–] kyle@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

By using Windows, you probably already opted in to these things from accepting their EULA. It's a shitty practice, but it's well within their purview.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 4 points 1 year ago

It's also well within the users purview to complain about it... Also for people to figure out how to rip it out of a system as well.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's in the EULA? That the software is installed, what are you complaining about exactly?

If you don't use the software it's irrelevant.

[–] kyle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not complaining about anything. I agree with you that it's irrelevant, just turn it off

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not trying to claim they aren't allowed to do it. The fact that it's legal doesn't make it right.