WHY?
Surely this is a minor problem with an easy solution: choose “Save As…” from the menu, then select a folder on your local drive.
My God, THANK YOU! I’ve seen this article in five different places and everyone is losing their minds over this, seemingly completely oblivious to the fact that:
- This ONLY affects people who are using OneDrive in the first place.
- It’s a setting that you can change any time.
- If you want to keep the default but have a specific file outside of OneDrive just - exactly like you said - click “Save As” and store it locally.
It’s mind boggling how much people switch off their brains whenever they see Microsoft doing literally anything, and the entire conversation devolves into “Microsoft bad”.
Could someone tell Microsoft I switched to Linux ten years ago? They don’t have to encourage me anymore.
Libreoffice puts my docs where I tell it and they get synced to my other machines. Don’t understand why people store docs on other people’s computers. The business world is full of dumbarses leading dumbarses. You can’t tell them though.
I’ve been watching this thread, expected to hear this, but not yet …
I know Google’s office products are essentially the same problem, but they are at very least free (in dollars).
I haven’t used MS Office in years. We use Google at work. I use my NextCloud at home.Is there no longer a “save as…” option to select where you want to save the file? 🤔
I have used Open Office for over a decade now so this is kind of a genuine question.
There is
Is this just for home edition? Or other editions as well. I work at a school with education edition, and I have a co-worker who said when I was helping the with their file management problems
me: just save to Desktop for now. We will fix it later. Them: I don’t think I have a desktop.
I can’t imagine how many other offices having to train their staff about all these new features.
nope.
" Word will now save new documents to OneDrive by default — and that changes everything"
Wouldn’t it be great if all your docs were stored out in the cloud? Just think, you wouldn’t need a hard drive! And someone else could guard them for you, like, say, Deputy Dan. http://descope.kwwhitaker.com/wallofscience.html
I love watching the world burn while I use Linux and LibreOffice.
I just wish work didn’t force me to take a front seat and interact with MS products anyway.
Wish M$ would just go full Sega and give Linux official multiplayer support. They suck giant Ds for making anticheat windows only.
LibreOffice is so refreshing after dealing with MSOffice’s bullshit and Google’s web-based solution.
It matters not if you use Libre Office
Yup. Haven’t used Word in decades.
Honestly, even as a privacy guy, this makes sense. SkyDrive was unique in giving people 30GB, plus 5GB if you turned on photo upload (even if you turned it right back off). So even without paying, my OneDrive is still 35GB. That’s plenty for documents.
What Windows 10+ does with backing stuff up to OneDrive and sharing it across builds is smart, if not the best execution. I kind of have that between my Macs and iPhone with Safari bookmarks and passwords.
I would be asking how safe OneDrive is and if it had any major breaches, if I were a Windows user. I’m actually using iWork and iCloud though, and I trust that a little more, but OneDrive doesn’t seem that problematic to me. There’s a lot I don’t like about Microsoft, but OneDrive doesn’t earn any ire from me. Should it? (Probably not since I’m a Mac user and it’s all abstract anyway.)
Counterpoint, I lost an unknown number of files (unknown because I have no idea what all I failed to recover) years ago when my OneDrive backup filled up and my attempts to clear out space in the cloud backup propogated to my local storage, deleting everything I had in my local documents folder.
MS will probably use everyone’s documents to train AI and build profiles on you. I’m not sure there are any guarantees that your information is stored or transmitted entirely E2EE.
i have a cracked version of 365 office or is it an earlier version, so it stays on my pc with no connection to onedrive at all.
I’ll make One guess.
“Starting today, new documents in Word desktop on Windows (Insiders) now save directly to OneDrive, with autosave enabled,”
Yeah.
Index it all and train our AI on it.
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.
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
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.
Onedrive is Microsoft’s attempt to make Home Windows users a revenue source by making it a subscription service. This has been SOP in smart phones for a decade now.
Makes me wonder if there is something in the terms that allows them to use documents stored on onedrive to train AI. Adobe is doing the same bullshit and keeps pushing you to send PDFs as Adobe cloud links instead of directly attaching the file to an email. They’re doing everything they can to get your data on their servers.
We’re no longer the customer. We’re the product.
Most likely, there is. In very small print.
With a sign saying beware of the leopard?
I don’t think they bother with fine print anymore
You can disable the Outlook addon that nags you about Adobe cloud, btw. Small part of the puzzle, but it helps.
Only office and LibreOffice FTW!
