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As someone who has ~20 kbps upload speed this news is very frustrating. :(

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You definitely don't have to let it waste your bandwidth if you don't want to use it. You can:

a) Tell SkyDrive not to start on startup

b) Remove that folder from syncing

c) Tell SkyDrive not to sync on metered networks and set your home connection as a metered network

d) Save documents to a different folder

e) Uninstall SkyDrive

This is usually the point where someone comes and says:

a) Install a FOSS OS instead

At what point, I wonder, does that cease to be a snarky response? We are now apparently at the point where you have to jump through hoops to save your own files on your own computer.

It's not Windows 8.1 that's bothering me so much as projecting what this path looks like in Windows 10.

At what point? Not sure. Some years ago now, I think. When did Vista launch?

OSes have always catered for the majority use case. A few years ago, no-one had the internet connection to do file syncing like this- and storage was too expensive anyway.

Now both of those barriers have been removed and the OS is now taking advantage of these new capabilities. I really don't see what is wrong with that. Should all OSes remain frozen at a 2003 state of development?

"Now both of those barriers have been removed"

...in some places in the world, but not others. Will MS change their defaults by territory does anyone know?

eh? These are possible options not every single one of them solves the "problem". You don't have to do all of them. Besides, Skydrive is a local folder with throttled upload. So you save immediately and it eventually ends up on the server. So it's not like you will have to wait until it uploads.

On the other hand, you shouldn't upload anything illegal or even objectionable, Microsoft is looking (it probably has to) http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/court-record...

I think doing any of the five options the parent post listed (doing one of them is enough, no need to do all five) is easier than installing an operating system. This is why it's still a snarky response.

It should still work like a normal folder, even if you're offline, no?

Sure. You can save files locally (SkyDrive is not compulsory) or you can have SkyDrive automatically sync docs on all your PCs and/or Macs.

But if you are creating documents online using the Office Web Apps in SkyDrive, then it would be very odd if the default storage was a local PC, tablet or phone.

All these things are true today under Windows 7 and 8 as well as 8.1.

If cloud storage is such a terrible idea, it seems odd that there is so much hype for Google Apps -- which apparently 100% of startups use -- and for Chromebooks and similar thin client operating systems.

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