Comment on Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoThis actually is a really good idea.
Yes, for the reasons you mention. And very, very much no. My corporate hat immediately thinks about a crapload of stuff our network drives have which is under various NDAs, restrictions to store outside EU/ETA, restrictions to store even outside our country and so on. At least our accounts have mandatory MFA and other standard safety features, but cloud storage has a different threat model than our local hardware which also makes it’s own little headaches.
I don’t play on the contract/legal field on corporate at all, but I do know that some of those NDAs have numbers big enough to bring the whole circus down and other clauses which can even throw someone in jail if things really go wrong. I just hope I’m not the scapegoat at that point.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
If data has handling requirements it 500% should not be something people are storing on their “personal” devices.
I personally hate the idea of storing corporate data in “cloud” storage, but MS et al have gotten approval from many governments to do exactly that. So if that is your corporate data store? Then that is where it goes. And if someone is making a new document with additional restrictions then they better damned well have training on how to pick which folder in onedrive it goes into.
modular950@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
an alternative to MS (or some other third-party) cloud doesn’t have to be “personal” devices, though. company-specific handling requirements can still be achieved via self-hosted network shares containing all user-saved data, which still aids in the local storage replacement issue that you’re having. but for many companies and spaces, MS cloud or whatever third-party could be just fine, and this will of course push some of those folks that direction nicely