I suppose this means Microsoft will not count Word doc file sizes against users’ cloud storage quotas, right? Right??
Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward
Submitted 2 months ago by simple@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
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Prox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
🤣
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’ll be like Google: everything goes in, nothing comes out unless you jump through difficult hoops, price continually goes up.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where do you think Google learned it?
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 2 months ago
Getting anything out is already almost impossible. I moved sway from 3rd party cloud storage a couple years back. I had to get 500gb from onedrive and it was refusing to download at anything more than 50kb/s (my internet was significantly better than that)
kernelle@0d.gs 2 months ago
If you’re in the EU, you can apply for a GDPR request to get sent a copy of all your data in their cloud, same for iCloud. Takes about 48 hours in my experience.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Mario_Kart8_deluxe.iso.docx
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No, they upload your file, delete the local file, then oopsie, you ran out of cloud storage, please pay $99/month to access your files.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is certainly about making sure your files are safe and definitely not about stealing your data for training AI. /s
Don’t let Murdersoft steal your data. Don’t contribute to their corruption or genocide assistance.
Step 1: fedoraproject.org
Step 2: www.libreoffice.orgModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Thanks, going to try out LibreOffice. Does it has same (or similar) functions as Word itself?
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s designed to be very similar. If you are already familiar with Word, you should feel right at home.
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been using it for over a decade now and have only rarely come across broken documents due to proprietary features. If you’re making docs for yourself, I’d say it’s pretty much a 100% replacement. Things can get a bit more fucky if you’re having exchanges where you edit with Libre and someone else edits with Word. But other than that, they’re pretty darn close.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Pretty much. It was OpenOffice years ago, but then Oracle got involved and so all the devs left and put a new name on it.
_edge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
No. That’s the point. LibreOffice does not send your data to Microsoft.
LibreOffice is what Microsoft Office WAS without the bugs. If Word and Excel worked for you before the cloud, Libre is golden.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m 99% of the way on LibreOffice. Gave it a solid go, but the main thing I use in excel is too cumbersome in Libre. I think it’s a great option for many people though.
innermachine@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As a clueless individual, how are they assisting genocide?
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A simple search for “microsoft genocide” would have given you those answers. But if that’s too much work, here you go.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Working hand in hand with the Israeli government in mass surveillance and (likely) AI-generated targeting data.
obinice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let’s say this huge breach of security and privacy is okay.
How are Microsoft ensuring these sensitive documents are not being transferred via or stored on servers located in hostile countries with lax data laws (such as foreign nations like the USA?).
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Microsoft has already said it doesn’t matter where your data is stored, it isn’t safe from the United States.
But you can change this behaviour in settings, it’s just the default for now.
So, if you don’t trust Microsoft to handle your documents, but still somehow use MS Word and OneDrive, for the moment you can still stop it from saving your Word documents to their servers.
Exusia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ms office 2016 install still going strong with zero cloud function. That day I lose it is the day LibreOffice copies itself from the laptop to the desktop. Aint paying for O365
fullsquare@awful.systems 2 months ago
wdym, that’s the point
AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tell your friends.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
OnlyOffice gang www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop.aspx
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I like the idea of it, but it is Russian.
flandish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tip: do not write about the revolution, short stories, hatred of capitalism, your suicide plans, or your teenage angst and erotic anthropomorphic horse fan fiction.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
tip: Only write about the revolution, short stories about your hatred of capitalism, your suicide plans, or your teenage angst and erotic anthropomorphic horse fan fiction.
For everything else, use LibreOffice.
flandish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
directions unclear, now I’m directing a netflix special on sexy horse guerrillas.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
bingo
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So just bpmb threats and realistic beastiality. Got it.
saddlebag@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tina Belcher?
flandish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ha! Exactly where I was going with that.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I love to kill cops ~in~ ~GTA~
Cherry@piefed.social 2 months ago
Ensure to make sure every doc has 17 giant sized images saying FU MS
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Fuck you, Microsoft.” -Everyone, at all times
Even if you’re not ready to come to Linux, you’re definitely ready to switch to LibreOffice. I dare you to try it.
xvertigox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m using OnlyOffice bins on linux and find it to be a fantastic suite for my (minimal) uses. Not sure how it works on Windows though.
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m unclear on the differences between OpenOffice (which I genuinely thought was retired, didn’t realize it was still a thing) and LibreOffice. If it ever gives you trouble, do make the switch.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Fuck you, Microsoft.” -Everyone, at all times
Eh, that game where you had two gorillas standing on buildings lobbing exploding bananas at each other was pretty cool.
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wtiter and Impress should cover Word and Powerpoint perfectly. Even if your colleagues use Windows, you can still open them just fine.
Excel though is troublesome, especially those with coded VBA or some plugins from companies.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yeah I got through school and could work just fine now with Calc. I’m sure it breaks when you get fancy but not that many people get that fancy.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
To anyone thinking “LibreOffice still has issues”, here’s the LibreOffice donation page to help them fix it up and be rid of MS Office forever.
diptchip@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not to be used to train AI. We promise.
lemmysquezzy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LLM’s out here running wild. Co-Pilot my butt. How Rude. Pun not intended. Maybe I should switch to Linux again.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
They’d break SO MANY international and data security laws if they tried breaking into people’s OneDrive, it’d be hilarious to see the number of lawsuits they’d lose by default.
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
they’re probably already doing that to a smaller degree, and slightly protecting themselves with an obscure clause in their TOS. besides, you only lose lawsuits if you get caught - and churning things through AI is a great way to erase any fingerprints that identifies stolen data
selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No, I don’t think they will. LibreOffice
RickyWars@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Laughs in LaTeX?
absentbird@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been writing all my college papers in LaTeX and it’s been great. They look so professional, and it’s easier to work on a collection of text files than one monolithic document.
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Google doc for me. It is free and it is good enough.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s interesting, since Google Docs has always automatically saved files to the cloud.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you to the skilled developers who bailed on OpenOffice when the shit stain company Oracle bought Sun, and formed LibreOffice.
I can only hope there will always be digital freedom fighters on the side of good.
I’ve donated to LibreOffice, and you should too, if you use their suite.
absentbird@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I love LibreOffice, but I wish there was an Android app. I’ve even considered learning more app development to try and help, but it’s such a daunting task.
bruzzard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This here. Not fully featured but a decent reader and editor which we hope will improve with time. Good effort on the devs!
LibreOffice & Open Office Document Reader | ODF f-droid.org/packages/at.tomtasche.reader/
3laws@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s a web port AFAIK, web dev has a lower entry level
Mavytan@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Check out the Collabra Office android app. It probably covers your needs.
jcs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
You can turn it off. Opt-out is still bullshit.
kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
- you can turn it off for now
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You can make yourself believe that you turned it off for now*
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
until your computer force reboots itself in the middle of the day to do updates it didn’t tell you about, and you log back in and later that night find it uploaded all your shit to the cloud and just for good measure deleted some of it too as a fuck you
it’s the Microsoft way
CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 months ago
The true opt out is to stop using Microsoft products
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You can’t opt out, most healthcate providers use windows.
Mental health awareness? No thanks, I rather just write in a journal and talk to myself in the mirror as therapy.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I don’t trust Microsoft not to flip that switch back when I’m not looking.
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Microsoft all about opting out rather than opting in.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
L I B R E O F F I C E
Bwaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LibreOffice. No need for MS Office, ever
pinchy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That sounds pretty much like ransomware to me.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
How will this work for (for example) cibersecurity companies that have reports full of client’s vulnerabilities and can’t have them hosted in their parties?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Holy fucking shit, what absolute trash
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Which means an AI scans it…
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This feature doesn’t even work.
So many times I’ll save a word doc, attach it to outlook, and it’ll silently attach an older version of the word doc.
Word says its up to date, one drive says its up to date, but outlook still gets an old version.
It takes hours to resolve. Everything Microsoft wastes so much of my time.
ZMoney@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This might be when I finally jump ship and go to Linux. I should do Mint, right?
roserose56@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Libre office does the job for me! Auto save on cloud sucks. At least you can turn it off! For now.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I still use Wordpad to write all my gay dinosaur erotica, am I safe?
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you mind that Word documents are stored in the cloud by default, you need to modify the default setting
…or just use some other app for your private documents and Word only for work-related stuff or such.
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Idiots will still not know where anything is saved. Catering to the technologically illiterate has made society way more illiterate.
nukeforyou@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
What if I’m using a pirated copy of windows and office?
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d rather use old ass word perfect at this point
Fedditor385@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This made my blood boil, and then I remembered I switched to Linux a month ago… all good.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
Switched to linux. No regrets so far.
Of the installs I’ve done in the past year, none were absolutely flawless. One had an error that I just hit “retry” and it worked. One required some serious googling but I found the fix on reddit (rip). One didn’t work at all, and I switched to a different distro that did work.
I’m not going to lie and sugarcoat it, but once I got past the install everything has been fine. Hopefully things will continue to improve
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
www.libreoffice.org if you want microsoft to stop messing with your office apps.
simple@piefed.social 2 months ago
There is also only office which has better compatibility with MSOffice file types
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 2 months ago
This here.
I wish Only Office got as much fanfare as LibreOffice. The UI is much closer to Microsoft Office and it tends to have better compatibility.
I have both installed though and use them both lol.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Downside is ties to Russia and performance is really bad, as I understand it’s an Electron web app, not a native application. It also won’t save to network shares properly and will lose your file if you do.
petrjanda@gonzo.markets 2 months ago
Don’t ever save your files directly on a samba share with only office. Lost hours of work twice . It doesn’t keep recovery files.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I second this. There’s a little bit of a learning curve on some of the functionality, but it’s not bad at all. And most of the functionality is very easy to find. I moved over to Libre Office several years ago and it’s been great.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Office would have a learning curve too if you hadn’t been using it since you were a child.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
You can now enable a tabbed interface similar to Microsoft Office