10-16-2025, 02:20 PM
(10-16-2025, 01:30 PM)bplus Wrote: There is an extortion factor too. MS is determined to suck money from you by forcing you to subscribe for Cloud services on Win 11. Your Desktop is now in the Cloud and when you exceed 5 GB storage no more email access until you subscribe for more room. I suspect this is only the start of subscription extortion.
Sorry bplus is being pretty negative, on the plus side I have more than 5 GB of QB64 files and folders
Umm... Somebody lied to you, or you misunderstood something, or something...
Your desktop is the same place it's always been with Win 11 -- on your desktop. It's not in any cloud.
Windows 11 comes with 5GB OneDrive -- but that's also available for you win Windows 10. If you don't use it, just uninstall it.
Windows 11 has jack shit to do with your email access, much less any storage limit on it. My email is from @swva.net. Many folks have email @google.com or @yahoo.com or something similar. WTF would microsoft have anything whatsoever to do with your storage limit with it then?
Even *IF* you're using Outlook for your email, the limits are larger than that: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/offi...fdd26dd770
Quote:If you don't have a Microsoft 365 subscription, you get 15 GB of free mailbox storage for your Outlook.com emails, contacts and calendar items. You also get 5 GB of free cloud storage for your email attachments, files and photos in OneDrive.
So where this idea of only have 5GB for email or desktop or whatnot comes from, I have no clue.
OneDrive has a free 5GB online storage for you, but that's 100% optional and you can uninstall it and kick it out the door if you want. It's mainly really useful for syncing your desktops so they look the same on multiple devices and have the same layout. But there's nothing in the world where you have to pay any subscription service to microsoft to run Windows 11.
Office has a yearly subscription cost of $69 per year, or $99 per year with AI support. It ups a lot of these limits (such as OneDrive from 5GB to 1TB online storage and Outlook from 15GB to 100GB email storage...), but nothing says you have to pay for those. If you're not paying for it in Win 10, there's nothing new to pay for in Win 11.