Microsoft is killing OneDrive support in Windows 7 and 8
Users of Microsoft’s first-party cloud storage are going to get a less-than-gentle nudge to upgrade to a newer operating system early 2022. According to a post on its tech support forum, Microsoft will be ending support for the OneDrive desktop app on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 starting on 1 March, 2022. Users who want to preserve the backup and sync functionality will need to upgrade to Windows 10 or 11. OneDrive won’t become completely useless for those on older operating systems: the files themselves aren’t going anywhere, and the OneDrive system (and updated, synced contents) can still be accessed via Microsoft accounts on the web. OneDrive apps for iOS and Android are unaffected. It should be noted that, since this is a rather arbitrary end of service, Microsoft…