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🌩️ Your Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward - gHacks Tech News

｢ Microsoft announced that it is changing the default save location for Word documents on Windows. "Anything new you create will be saved automatically to OneDrive or your preferred cloud destination", writes Raul Munoz, product manager at Microsoft on the Office Shared Services and Experiences team ｣

https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/27/your-word-documents-will-be-saved-to-the-cloud-automatically-on-windows-going-forward/

#microsoft #privacy #ai #bigtech #cloud

fly-Ing

@flyIng@mastodon.bachgau.social replied · last month

@jbz
Microsoft 365 has "one Drive" as default location for several months now.
Does the "automatic saving" function save the data to onedrive even of you choose another Location afterwards?
That's like the upload of every mail and accoint credentials to Microsoft servers when switching to the new Outlook. 🙄

Another reason for uninstall.

Mark Saltveit

@taoish@mastodonapp.uk replied · last month

@jbz
I have a personal user license and this has been true for at least a year or two. I was eventually able to change the default save location to my hard drive but it was a huge pain.

the roamer

@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk replied · last month

@jbz

It's been happening in my workplace already, and, boy, is it annoying. I keep resetting to "local save" but the Great Beast keeps putting it back on cloud.

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