<p>I don’t think it’s by design anymore. For a long time, MS protected its market by refusing to share file formats - forcing you to buy Office, which was Bill G’s big strategy. But now? It’s technically complicated to translate formats. </p>
<p>As for storage, 256GB is fine. There is a problem that file sizes always get bigger and bigger and bigger but that problem can’t be solved by a bigger drive: it’s more about getting stuff off your computer, into the cloud, onto another drive … or throwing stuff out. </p>
<p>So for example, a movie file is under 1GB. You need to keep how many? Or rather, you need to keep how many on your main computer instead of somewhere else.</p>