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.
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.
Daily driver for the last 10+ years!
and Collabora Office on mobile devices!
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.
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Ohh wow… Looks very interesting. Thank you
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.
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.
Time to start saving ai poisoning documents
Jokes on them, I use AI for all my text writing anyway.
I feel like it’s more direct than that. They want more OneDrive subscriptions. Cloud storage is absurdly profitable
Yet another reason to use alternatives to Microsoft.
Tell that to people who have to use certain software that only works with Office for work.
Even more fun in my case: for security reasons I am not allowed to save my work in any cloud.
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.
The current US admin cannot be trusted not to force Microsoft to handover your data
The current admin? Were you asleep during the Snowden scandal? PRISM? Four Eyes? The US, and services that store data in the US, are never trust worthy and are always stealing your data regardless of who is the clown in power at a given year.
Yes I was sleeping and you forgot about the Five Eyes.
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.
Oh no! Guess I better continue to use Libre Office instead.
And Collabora Office on mobile devices :)
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.
It seems like every new day has a new reason to remind me why I’m glad I ditched Microsoft.
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.
and that changes everything
Does not change my opinion :-)
This company is becoming more and more toxic, and everybody should abandon their stuff ASAP!
Thanks, I hate it.
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I switched too but I would be lying if I said it is easy. The muscle memory and expectations are there for office, I hate them but it is hard for people to leave them.
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Microsoft is steering customers to Linux
Meh. That’s why LibreOffice exists.
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.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.
Well here we are 9 days later, my bad.
Didn’t want to write it out, so here is a LLM writing it more succinctly than myself:
Windows 10 Option 1: Using Settings
Press Windows + I to open Settings.
Click Apps.
Under Apps & features, scroll through the list or use the search box to find the program you want to remove.
Click the program, then click Uninstall.
Follow the prompts from the program’s uninstaller to complete the removal.
Option 2: Using Control Panel
Press Windows + R, type control, and press Enter to open Control Panel.
Click Programs → Programs and Features.
Scroll through the list to find the program you want to remove.
Right-click the program and select Uninstall.
Follow the uninstallation wizard to complete the process.
Windows 11 Option 1: Using Settings
Press Windows + I to open Settings.
Click Apps from the left-hand menu.
Click Installed apps.
Scroll or search for the program you want to remove.
Click the three-dot menu (⋮) next to the app and select Uninstall.
Confirm by clicking Uninstall again and follow the program’s uninstaller prompts.
Option 2: Using Control Panel (same as Windows 10)
Press Windows + R, type control, and press Enter.
Click Programs → Programs and Features.
Select the program you want to uninstall.
Click Uninstall and follow the prompts.
The easiest way is firing up Chris Titus’ script on the Terminal, going to Tweaks and selecting the OneDrive removal script. I don’t endorse Chris Titus’ content… but the script does work well as an aggregator for a bunch of other scripts that you’d have a hard time finding or running yourself.
