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Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 11 months ago by simple@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile here I am with ghostwriter

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

This creates a circus act to protect documents. Thank goodness for great alternatives. I use a mix of LibreOffice and Cryptpad. Suits me perfectly.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Per the article this can be deactivated

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Silence! The great Microsoft has decreed that from this day forward your documents belong to them! No dissension!

Proceed to the payment portal to pay your offerings immediately. Only those worthy enough to pay for the Extra^TM^ and Premium^TM^ tiers will be allowed to use the File menu.

[–] Technotica@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Windows!

laughs quietly in Linux

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

Cool It finally gets Google docs core functionality after only 20 years. How innovative.

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[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I don't get it, does Microsoft WANT everyone to stop using their products? First they fuck up their OSes, then they start planting shady shit in their OSes, and now it's down to every single goddamned piece of software they poop out! What in the fuck are they even doing!

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[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

What if I dont use M$ account? So it is just a local user, then where does Word back up to?

[–] dimjim@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

This is why Microsoft is making it damn near impossible to set up a new computer without logging into a Microsoft account. Luckily the OOBE trick still works (for now).

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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Some executive noticed that they can't sell you larger cloud storage if you haven't used it up.

Then someone on the office copilot team said they wished they had access to more comprehensive data about what people write with office apps and the rest is history.

[–] QuestionMark@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

I'll just use LibreOffice, but... a lot of people just don't care. Which does also impact us.

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