This is a bit old, but still relevant. It might help some people that want to dual boot and find it difficult help to understand Microsoft’s business practices area big part of the reason.
Germany Puts Microsoft on Five Years Probation for Antitrust Bullying
During that three years, he pointed out, Microsoft has further increased its anti-competitive behavior, in part by integrating OneDrive deeper into Windows and making it more difficult to use Windows without a OneDrive account (which is not much different than Google making it difficult to use Chrome browser without a Google account). Added to that, in June Microsoft began automatically backing up Windows users’ files to OneDrive without user permission, doing so as a “service.”
In addition, Poortvliet said, Microsoft has blocked Nextcloud’s attempts to access Microsoft’s interoperability API’s that would let Nextcloud users save files to Nextcloud from inside Microsoft Office.
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