When you install or load Windows for the first time, Microsoft pushes One Drive very heavily, and even have. the audacity to call it a backup solution which it is not. There is no integrated backup solution on Windows, and One Drive is a weak file synchronization tool. You would see the benefits of it even more if you are wealthy enough to have 2 Windows 11 PCs. I can create a document on a desktop while home, and save the file to One Drive. While on the bus to go to work, I could open that document on my One Drive account and continue working on it. However, this is not backing up. Deleting that file will delete from b both machines instantly. A deleted file can be recovered from a backup.
Microsoft will like to shove One Drive down your throat. The goal is to be so “valuable” that you would be willing to get a Microsoft 365 subscription with the 1TB of One Drive storage. This is because the free amount is only 5GB which while it could hold a lot of documents, there are also photos and videos that are synched with One Drive. This could add up fast if you take a lot of photos or videos. To make matters worse, it is too easy to turn it on automatically – therefore moving all of your files without your consent. You have to turn of One Drive before you can move files back to where they belong. To make matters worse, you have to go through a number of steps to turn off One Drive. You can still use your paltry 5GB of online storage, but the goal will be to decide what files get “synched” with your computers.
So what would be my solution. One, quit acting like you know better. I have my files where they are for a reason, and I don’t want you messing up that rhythm. Make it as easy to turn off One Drive as it was to turn it on, or make it as hard to turn it on as it is to turn it off. If you want a file backup solution, then create one. You have an OS, there is no reason why you can’t integrate a Microsoft Backup tool for you to offer a means of saving important files. Maybe if you integrated One Drive in this as a choice of a solution, then that would make more people OK with using it. However, if you do create a backup software, then make it so it will also back up to other drives. Real Backup software is not that hard. If need be, take a cue from MacOS which their Time Machine solution.