In a move that could redefine how millions work, Microsoft is steering Word users toward the cloud, sparking debates over convenience, control, and the future of local storage.
Microsoft Word logo in Windows 11 Search. Word and OneDrive just got a lot closer. (Image credit: Windows Central) Microsoft held a special OneDrive and Copilot event today where it announced a number of new features for the cloud-storage service. Buried in the announcements is one change that Microsoft is soon making to Word that might ruffle some feathers among those who are still pushing back against OneDrive and the cloud.
“Starting today, new documents in Word desktop on Windows (Insiders) now save directly to OneDrive, with autosave enabled,” says Microsoft. This means that creating new documents in Word in the future will automatically save said documents to your OneDrive storage, with autosave enabled from the get-go.
The change is designed to make it easier for users to back up and access their documents across devices, but some might find Word attempting to automatically upload documents to the cloud by default to be a privacy concern. Many will likely not even notice that Word’s behavior has changed, as the entire saving and backup process is automatic.
Meh. That’s why LibreOffice exists.
Oh no! Guess I better continue to use Libre Office instead.
And Collabora Office on mobile devices :)
The change is designed to make it easier for users to back up and access their documents across devices
Bullshit. The change is so microsoft can mine more data to feed openai.
Jokes on them, I use AI for all my text writing anyway.
That’s clearly for Copilot to scan all your documents for “indexing” without your consent
Is it even possible for regular person to get a an enterprise license of windows?
Seems like of this is intentional to funnel people into OS that spies and steals.
Try Linux and LibreOffice.
and Collabora Office on mobile devices!
Daily driver for the last 10+ years!
On it
I’ve heard that there is a mass grave one can visit where you can find information about obtaining and activating enterprise versions.
there is an ancient spell that will help you:
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Goto ebay (cover your mouth and nose)
Is this actually a valid strategy?
Its implied consent just like when a woman looks at you, duh.
Sounds like robbery our data. Fact is we hear about data breaches all the time. Don’t allow this for your personal data.
The current US admin cannot be trusted not to force Microsoft to handover your data and use it against you.
It will be done before it gets to court.
It really is.
There are laws against going into someone’s garden and picking their fruit, because fruit is valuable produce. This is slightly different, they invite you into their website, then they steal your valuable data for their commercial purposes without paying you for it.
Congratulations, you’ve just won the play stupid games and win stupid prices game.
No reason to complain, your documents can now be handed over to the authorities quickly and efficiently without any inconvenience to you, and we will also use them to train AI.
In the near future:
You can now open all your documents from OneDrive for the low price of 10 cent per document per time you open it. Also you don’t have to worry about where to store anymore, it’s all completely locked in to Microsoft formats, so you can’t really move it to another platform anyway.Yet another reason to use alternatives to Microsoft.
Thanks, I hate it.
They did this already with Excel, and broke a lot of macros. Also changed how it could use IE for automation, and of course there’s no way to convert it to Edge. If Microsoft didn’t have 99% of the business world already tied up in their stuff they’d go out of business soon for the stupid things they break of their own products.
and that changes everything
Does not change my opinion :-)
This company is becoming more and more toxic, and everybody should abandon their stuff ASAP!
Although it took me forever to switch to linux I switch to libreoffice in the early twenty teens I think. Once you could export to pdf it became the better way.
It seems like every new day has a new reason to remind me why I’m glad I ditched Microsoft.
Microsoft is steering customers to Linux
Nice try M$, I completely removed OneDrive from all of my Win11 installs. It still tries to get me to save to the folder that once upon a time was OneDrive by default. Auto save off, and save as on every save and select the folder on my file server.
completely removed OneDrive
Kindly asking for a tutorial.
I was trying to create an Excel pie chart based on a downloaded CSV file. No big, but something I might only need once a year. Couldn’t remember the PivotTable params. Search in help. It offers to do it for me. Sure, I think, not realizing it would try to turn on CoPilot, then try to upload the file to their cloud for analysis, then save it to OneDrive cloud.
The only thing that stopped it was that by default the ‘auto-save’ toggle wasn’t on. So it stopped and complained. Killed it and started over, making sure everything was local. Ugh.
