Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward

Comments

• CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most customers don’t want their users saving locally anyway for data protection and not having to do extra compliance and workstation management.

  Of course folks here are acting like setting a default they don’t like is insane chaos.

  source
• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This will be good for the post I saw yesterday where someone was working on some story for weeks and lost it all because they didn’t have a backup lol

  source
• viking@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad idea. Too many people are still not backing up their data, and the article says “…automatically save to OneDrive or your preferred cloud destination”.

  As long as they really give users full freedom to choose any cloud service, I consider that a win.

  source

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “If you don’t have another cloud destination, don’t worry… we’ll automatically save it to your OneDrive account we FORCED you to get when you activated your operating system. Why no! You CAN’T turn it off! Also, we won’t let you edit your files without internet connectivity. You can never be too safe!”

    Literally the ONLY thing stopping this from happening is they don’t think they can get away with it yet. I’m NOT going to give them the benefit of the doubt.

    source
  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad idea.

    No, this is a bad idea. It’s a terrible idea.

    What you said is like saying “well, I need surgery, having the monkey from the forest come at me with a knife is better than nothing.”

    Microsoft has proven themselves over and over to be the last company you should trust with your data. Even recently they’ve been responsible for losing a life’s worth of data because of OneDrive

    They’re already uploading people’s data off of their computers to OneDrive without consent, then deleting the local copies.

    Plus their tech work culture is lacking. When they screwed something up with Office 365 and Outlook wasn’t available for over 18 hours (for basically the whole world), their response was a tweet that it’s fixed.

    Whereas CloudFlare messed up something for only an hour, they released a comprehensive breakdown on their blog of what happened, what the root cause was, and what they’re going to do to prevent it from happening again.

    Which company seems reliable to you?

    source
  • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A definite plus if one option is to backup to self-hosted platforms.

    source
• art@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I recently started using VisiData and it’s amazing.

  source
• relativestranger@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  sounds like a ‘service problem’ someone once spoke about…

  acquire your ms office ‘elsewhere’ and never link it to a ms account. same with windows. no msa, no ‘cloud’ to save to.

  and there is a service problem here.

  source
• aarRJaay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Me me guess - is this so they can train the LLM using the data we’re ‘giving’ them? F U!!

  source
• darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No they won’t

  source
• Patches@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t this already the default?

  I have to change it on every single fuckin document already. Have done so for years now at work.

  // I don’t use Word outside of work…

  source

  • deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s on per default when signed in to OneDrive. Actually a really nice feature tbh. However, you will be promoted to hell and back if you aren’t signed in to OneDrive. I like the feature for work but I don’t like the idea of it being the default setting.

    source
• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  yet another reason to ditch microsoft

  source