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Microsoft flips the switch: Word will now save new documents to OneDrive by default — and that changes everything (www.windowscentral.com)

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In a move that could redefine how millions work, Microsoft is steering Word users toward the cloud, sparking debates over convenience, control, and the future of local storage.

Microsoft Word logo in Windows 11 Search. Word and OneDrive just got a lot closer. (Image credit: Windows Central) Microsoft held a special OneDrive and Copilot event today where it announced a number of new features for the cloud-storage service. Buried in the announcements is one change that Microsoft is soon making to Word that might ruffle some feathers among those who are still pushing back against OneDrive and the cloud.

"Starting today, new documents in Word desktop on Windows (Insiders) now save directly to OneDrive, with autosave enabled," says Microsoft. This means that creating new documents in Word in the future will automatically save said documents to your OneDrive storage, with autosave enabled from the get-go.

The change is designed to make it easier for users to back up and access their documents across devices, but some might find Word attempting to automatically upload documents to the cloud by default to be a privacy concern. Many will likely not even notice that Word's behavior has changed, as the entire saving and backup process is automatic.

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

and i flipped the switch to libreoffice long ago.

microsoft office has been bloated slow garbage for quite a while now. my condolences for people forced to use it.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 91 points 2 days ago

That’s clearly for Copilot to scan all your documents for "indexing" without your consent

[-] socialsecurity@piefed.social 19 points 2 days ago

Is it even possible for regular person to get a an enterprise license of windows?

Seems like of this is intentional to funnel people into OS that spies and steals.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago

Try Linux and LibreOffice.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago

Daily driver for the last 10+ years!

[-] oftheair 7 points 2 days ago

and Collabora Office on mobile devices!

[-] socialsecurity@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

On it

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

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[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Goto ebay (cover your mouth and nose)

[-] socialsecurity@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Is this actually a valid strategy?

[-] teft@piefed.social 78 points 2 days ago

The change is designed to make it easier for users to back up and access their documents across devices

Bullshit. The change is so microsoft can mine more data to feed openai.

[-] TDCN@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago

Jokes on them, I use AI for all my text writing anyway.

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sounds like robbery our data. Fact is we hear about data breaches all the time. Don't allow this for your personal data.

The current US admin cannot be trusted not to force Microsoft to handover your data and use it against you.

It will be done before it gets to court.

[-] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 1 day ago

The current US admin cannot be trusted not to force Microsoft to handover your data

The current admin? Were you asleep during the Snowden scandal? PRISM? Four Eyes? The US, and services that store data in the US, are never trust worthy and are always stealing your data regardless of who is the clown in power at a given year.

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Yes I was sleeping and you forgot about the Five Eyes.

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

It really is.

There are laws against going into someone's garden and picking their fruit, because fruit is valuable produce. This is slightly different, they invite you into their website, then they steal your valuable data for their commercial purposes without paying you for it.

[-] bufalo1973@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

"All your files are belong to us"

[-] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 21 points 2 days ago

Oh no! Guess I better continue to use Libre Office instead.

[-] oftheair 6 points 2 days ago

And Collabora Office on mobile devices :)

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago

They did this already with Excel, and broke a lot of macros. Also changed how it could use IE for automation, and of course there's no way to convert it to Edge. If Microsoft didn't have 99% of the business world already tied up in their stuff they'd go out of business soon for the stupid things they break of their own products.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 14 points 2 days ago

Although it took me forever to switch to linux I switch to libreoffice in the early twenty teens I think. Once you could export to pdf it became the better way.

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago

and that changes everything

Does not change my opinion :-)

This company is becoming more and more toxic, and everybody should abandon their stuff ASAP!

[-] RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Microsoft is steering customers to Linux

[-] CottonMcKnight@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago

Nice try M$, I completely removed OneDrive from all of my Win11 installs. It still tries to get me to save to the folder that once upon a time was OneDrive by default. Auto save off, and save as on every save and select the folder on my file server.

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

completely removed OneDrive

Kindly asking for a tutorial.

[-] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 1 day ago

The easiest way is firing up Chris Titus' script on the Terminal, going to Tweaks and selecting the OneDrive removal script. I don't endorse Chris Titus' content... but the script does work well as an aggregator for a bunch of other scripts that you'd have a hard time finding or running yourself.

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