Microsoft is killing OneDrive support in Windows 7 and 8 – Channel Asia

Credit: Dreamstime 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 next year. 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 March 1, 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,…