Windows 11 is again, as we saw with its predecessors, not only an operating system, but also A tip from Microsoft to make its catalog of products and services more visible, most recently services. And this is logical and understandable in terms of presentation and recommendation, not imposition. And it is because the operating system market is becoming less profitable, at least with regard to private users. Let’s remember that macOS has been free for several years, Linux has always been free, and although the official prices of Windows 11 are quite high, it’s easy to find deals that can get a 100% legal license for very, very few people. euros.

In other words, operating systems can only become profitable in a specific market, if they act as a showcase for everything the tech companies behind them have to offer us. The main paradigm is, of course, app stores, but there are also web browsers and other proprietary applications and online services: search engines, mail, cloud storage, etc. And the latter, online storage, is a space in which technology companies are increasingly competing.

OneDrive is Microsoft’s contender in this arena, and we’ve seen the Redmond folks working for quite some time now improve its integration in Windows 11 and older versions of your operating system. An integration that began, as in the case of other services of this type, such as Google Drive and Dropbox, maximally simplified the mapping of online storage as if it were an internal unit of the system, and which continued to improve the tools for managing the services from an operational point of view.

Now, as we can read on Softpedia, Microsoft will take an important step in this direction have Windows 11 notify users when they are running out of OneDrive space. At the moment, this function is included in the preview version of Windows 11, already available to insiders, so it can be expected that its arrival in the final version of the operating system will take place in a short time.

This may seem like a small detail, especially for those users who do not use cloud storage or use it very sporadically anyway. However, for all those who regularly rely on it, either as the main storage space, as its backup or for all those files that they want to access at any time from any device, Windows 11 shows more information about it can be very useful. And undoubtedly a status bar similar to the one we see in the pictureseems like a pretty good idea.