If you start uploading data to your cloud without my clear consent, I already see a very big problem with your product.
If you even substitute the directories in my computer (a standard that was untouched for the last 20 years) in a way to force my stuff into your cloud, then there’s a much bigger problem.
Managers who approved this should be thrown out of the company because this is clearly how NOT to make a product.
Microsoft had the idea that PCs are like phones.
Google/Apple sync everything in the background so Microsoft wanted to do it as well.
What does this have to do with the article you're responding to which is about OneDrive for Business?
More HN comments, less reddit comments, please.
He's right. I've had this garbage turns itself on then steal files into the cloud. When you disconnect it your files are suddenly gone and you have no idea why. There's a reason I daily drive Linux.