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Microsoft says they are ‘aligning’ OneDrive app support to Windows support but that doesn’t align (pun intended) with what they are doing. Microsoft is quite ruthless in punishing personal customers.įor personal users, Microsoft will stop the OneDrive app working at all (no file synchronization) with just four months notice unless you have Windows 10 or Windows 11. These changes go beyond the usual ‘end of support’ for software updates. OneDrive stops working at all in March 2022

OneDrive via a browser also continues, in fact might be necessary to use OneDrive on older machines. Users of Windows 10 and Windows 11 can continue to use the OneDrive app – naturally. They’ve given no reason for this abrupt cessation though their corporate self-interest is obvious.Īdding to the (deliberate) confusion is a distinction between personal and business use of OneDrive with separate announcements. It’s the first time we can recall where Microsoft is ending the working of an app, instead of just letting it work without security updates. For older Windows, the OneDrive app will stop working at all in early 2022 even though Windows itself is still in support.

Microsoft isn’t just stopping feature and security updates. But we’re not supposed to use words like ‘stop’, ‘drop’ or ‘end’, the preferred euphemism is ‘aligning’ even though there’s very little alignment happening. OneDrive support and complete service is being stopped completely on older versions of Windows.