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

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[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I actually appreciate this. The only place I use Word is at work, and nothing I create in Word at work is 'mine'. I do not care at all about the security of things I do at work (that's for our IT Security team to care about), and all this means is that if I accidentally screw up, or if my computer just up and dies on me... all of my work files should be 'safe'.

My employer has been going very hard towards ensuring that our work computers can ONLY be used for work purposes. Once I accepted this and embraced it I found that I'm now 100% free of Microsoft for anything personal, and it is amazing.

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

there is a reaching hand that goes further than just using it for work.

lets say you open libreoffice writer and write a party invite. you send this party invite to a friend - they are invited to your party.

your friend opens it in MSWord, its uploaded to the cloud and scraped for all of your personal data to train their AI and to be sold to the lowest bidder.

you had and want nothing to do with microsoft, but they are still harvesting your data.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Export to a .pdf, automatically opens by default in user browser via local storage as a reader, bypasses MS

This is still problematic shit though, on the same level as enabling Recall by default and encrypting W11 storage devices by default.

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Meanwhile here I am with ghostwriter

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Per the article this can be deactivated

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Windows!

laughs quietly in Linux

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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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[–] deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

LibreOffice does everything I need except that their version of Power Point (forgot the name lol) is a mess to work with in terms of making the slide deck visual appealing. Automatic guide lines, snapping and smartart, to name a few.

Thinking about onlyoffice but I'm not sure if I can trust them since I read about then trying to hide their ties to Russia.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Munoz backs up the decision with half a dozen advantages for saving documents to the cloud. From never losing progress and access anywhere to easy collaboration and increased security and compliance.

Munoz kept out the little details where nobody wants this and this is only a good thing for Microsoft

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