Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day agoHow so? I’ve used multiple office products every day at work for the last 20 years and have only noticed them getting better and better. If I could have any version of any of them to use right now it would be the current ones.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Microsoft Word literally removed the ability to autosave. Your document is no longer automatically saved as you type, unless you pay for cloud backup. This would be hilarious if it weren’t so unbelievably dumb.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
Is that true? I can’t really confirm that one myself as everywhere I use Word it is logged in with a license.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I’m a professional writer who uses Word (out of habit). Let me assure you that it’s true. Autosave does not work on local storage or iCloud — only Microsoft OneDrive.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
If what I’m reading in Microsofts support forums are correct, there was never an auto-save-to-local function in Word though. There was the auto-recover, but that’s not the same and I believe still exists.
Auto-save seems to have been added as a onedrive-only feature.