Oh so Linux is hard because you have to sometimes use the command line. Then people suggest registry hacks to make Windows work properly. Then Microsoft will just flip your registry setting back anyways. Stockholm syndrome is crazy.

Author here. I'm not against against free cloud back up. I was a Ubuntu One user before it shutdown. The problem isn't even that you can disable it via the registry.

The problem is that looking at the presented options, you can basically choose "Yes" or "OK".

Yeah, Windows users are used to the setting schizophrenia (5-6 places to control things), but if we met Windows today in 2025 it would be ridiculous.

Fine, there's a registry option. Do you think 99% of users even know what a registry is?

And folks say Linux setup is hard.

Yeah, at least if something breaks, I can be proud that I broke it and not some company flipping switches behind the scenes...

Hmm, I wonder if this setting can be 'read only' for the admin, or if MS tries to update it with the SYSTEM user.

I get frequent requests from like 4 vendors to get ""free"" cloud backup.