Ask Paul: June 2 (Premium)

Happy Friday! It was a long short week, if that makes sense, but here's a great set of reader questions to kick off the weekend a bit early.
Cross-browser bookmark sync
harmjr asks:

How do you keep up with your bookmarks/favorites between browsers? 0Any Program to sync favorites/bookmarks between all of the browsers and keep them up-to-date. I use Chrome/Edge/Firefox/Brave (in that order) all the time going back in forth and I am manually keeping this up but its annoying.

The short answer is that I don't.

For two reasons: I don't use bookmarks/favorites anymore and I don't really go back and forth between different browsers in daily use. I've been using Brave full-time since mid-2022, with the brief exception of October/November when I used Edge so I could write that part of the book. (I'm actually updating that part of the book now since Edge has changed so much, but I've only made it my go-to on one laptop.)

That said, I do have bookmarks in there that I never use. And way I handle this, as with other browser data, is to just do that one time import whenever I do switch browsers.

I have to think there is a solution for this, however. Perhaps someone else knows a good choice.
OneDrive inconsistencies
MartinusV2 asks:

Any reason why I still cannot configure OneDrive to backup my Music and Video folders? I thought by the time that feature would be available to everyone.

I've been wondering about this myself. There are three possible OneDrive user interfaces in Windows 11: the original UI, the new UI with just Desktop, Documents, and Pictures sync, and then the new UI but also with Music and Videos sync. The legacy UI is there when I first bring up a new PC or reinstall Windows 11, even today, and it's silently replaced by the new UI over time. But what you can sync varies from PC to PC. Sometimes I see the three original folders and sometimes I see five. There is no rhyme or reason to this.

Microsoft started talking about Controlled Feature Rollouts (CFRs) a few months ago, but it's clear that they've been using this method to roll out new features in Windows 11 since the arrival of 22H2 in September 2022. And based on my experiences, I can pinpoint two of those features with certainty because they match the key attribute of CFRs, in that they are literally rolled out randomly: the Search "pill" from last November/December (since replaced by a more complete Search experience in Moment 2) and this new OneDrive UI.

This type of deployment is ridiculous. But for people like me who use multiple PCs, it's weird to see a feature on one PC but not another. That this is still happening 6 months after its initial rollout is unexplainable and inexcusable. I wish I had a better answer.
Lightning round
helix2301 asks:

I have been reading Paul Allen book and one things he said was that while Microsoft has and will always be known as the Windows and Office company he pointed out that Microsoft original business was cre...