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Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 10 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] markz@suppo.fi 134 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'll make One guess.

"Starting today, new documents in Word desktop on Windows (Insiders) now save directly to OneDrive, with autosave enabled,"

Yeah.

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[–] Jramskov@feddit.dk 59 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Index it all and train our AI on it.

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Sell all your data to the Christian corporate fascist dictatorship, so they can use it to wage psychological and economic warfare on a global scale.

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[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

I'd say for most, the autosave will come in handy. So many times there's been a project and someone at the least minute freaks out over their document being gone

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[–] insight06@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

They could have easily implemented autosave and versioning on your local machine. They chose to gate it behind keeping your documents in the cloud for profit-motivated reasons.

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