OneDrive customers have to now justify why they're last the app before exiting

Trust Microsoft to locate new methods of making some thing (even extra) stressful. The act of last the OneDrive for Windows app will now pressure users to give an explanation for why they may be doing this kind of thing. And don't think you may simply ignore the question - Microsoft might not permit you to cease this system until you solution.

The document-syncing OneDrive app, which by using default runs whilst Windows begins, is not easy to shut even in normal circumstances. The wellknown procedure requires proper-clicking at the small cloud icon in the taskbar, selecting Pause Syncing from the drop-down menu, then clicking Quit OneDrive.

But it appears that evidently Microsoft has introduced any other layer of infection to the method. After selecting the Quit alternative, a pop-up field appears warning users that closing the app way their files might not sync or back up to the cloud. The pop-up carries a cancel button that forestalls OneDrive from being closed and a Quit OneDrive field this is greyed out. The handiest manner to access the latter is to pick a reason for quitting this system from the following alternatives.

• I do not need OneDrive jogging all of the time
• I don't know what OneDrive is
• I do not use OneDrive
• I'm trying to restore a trouble with OneDrive
• I'm seeking to speed up my laptop
• I get too many notifications
• Other

This isn't always the first time Microsoft has demanded an explanation when you try to go away one in all its merchandise. It became simplest last month when we heard that all of us using Edge to download Chrome installation documents would find that a survey appeared within the Activity Center sidebar asking why they were leaving. Answers included the likes of "can't get entry to my Google documents" and "too many commercials and pop-ups." The options did no longer include "crap like this."

Going lower back to the needy OneDrive survey, greying out a give up button looks like malware-fashion approaches. Again, that is something Microsoft has been accused of, two times. There was the 2016 Get Windows 10 (GWX) pop-up that turned the usual X within the nook from a manner of closing the box into an option to unwittingly give consent.

More lately, there was a pop-up asking customers to exchange their default seek engine to Bing in Chrome. This came in the form of a rogue executable file, signed by means of Microsoft, that regarded in c:windowstempmubstemp, making many trust it changed into malware.

It's unclear if the OneDrive survey is being shown to all customers or handiest those in certain places – it would not appear for this author. Perhaps the poor reviews have triggered the company to cease the survey. The first-rate alternative, of path, is simply to end OneDrive through Task Manager.

Thanks, Neowin