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My work switched pretty recently (December last year) that is one thing I've noticed that has really annoyed me is that all the Office apps have One Drive set as the default location to save anything. I've never used One Drive, I don't want to use One Drive but every time I hit save in word or excel it defaults to "One Drive" I have to physically click "This PC" button and browse to my local disk to save a copy locally every single time.

No one in my building uses one drive, no one asked for one drive but Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down our throats. It feels like an anti-pattern like the forced windows 10 "upgrade" for home users.

According to word I have Office 365 ProPlus version - I note there is no option to save to docs.com.

I am curious what your resistance is to OneDrive. Personally, I try to put as much in there as I can as I frequently switch machines that I am working on. I keep my work code in there as well (Git repo and all) and it's convenient when switching between VMs or when needing to wipe my workstation and start fresh.

I encounter many co-workers though who like to do things "the old way" and just email copies of documents around and then spend time merging them back together instead of sending a link to their OneDrive. Just more files for me to juggle on my computer. No thanks.

There are a few reasons, partly because of corporate policy which says no sensitive documents on cloud.

Partly because I need to access stuff offline so prefer to have a local copy. For example if I have to take my laptop travelling with between sites I may not have access to a internet connection.

Your right that a large part is familiarity - we use Sharepoint (which I also hate) to share documents between teams rather than email.

It sucks worse if you have compliance requirements because the controls really suck in the product. It exists because Google Drive exists.

You missed the serious suckabe. 3 years ago you could put the sync client on a fresh install of Windows 8 and do nothing with it and it would break itself.

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