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.
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.
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.
It’s probably hiding somewhere in the ribbon. I had the mispleaure of using word and outlook the other day, on someone else’s computer. Somehow I managed to save as an odt, somehow managed to attach end send it, only for the iPad not to be able to open the odt. Just said fuck it and went back to my lunix machine
There is
WHY?
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.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.
LibreOffice is so refreshing after dealing with MSOffice’s bullshit and Google’s web-based solution.
Wish M$ would just go full Sega and give Linux official multiplayer support. They suck giant Ds for making anticheat windows only.
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.
It matters not if you use Libre Office
Yup. Haven’t used Word in decades.
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.
" 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
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.
You know how many times I’ve had to tell someone that document they created and have been working on for days was never saved even once and can’t really be recovered?
I remember this. From the 90’s.
Autosave has existed AND been the default so long that taking it for granted is now actually okay.
This is not related cloud storage or corporates spying on users. It’s just autosave. That’s all it takes.
Gotta save once first.
Once upon a time it was like that. I don’t remember which decade I saw that last.
Lemme guess, hundreds-to-thousands, also the people you’re telling it to have business degrees and $100K+ salaries?
$1000/hr billing rates yes. Maybe 10 ppl/year.
I really hope they are incredibly good at a very specific thing that has nothing to do with where tf are their files.
Indeed.
Presumably it’s selling snake oil and convincing people to trust them?
well now you’ll have to instruct them on how to find anything they saved in onedrive
That’s what they changed. It’s saved to onedrive by default now.
Right, I’m saying that the users too incompetent to save a word doc will be incompetent to find the new save location
Didn’t this already happen? I feel like it’s been the default for a long time now.
I’m sure that won’t be an issue for anybody working with confidential, privileged or private information.
I would be shocked if this hasn’t had some set of controls to disable it in Group Policy for months now.
This is just rent seeking against Home users.
People with One Drive through corporate Azure sjbscriptions (rather than the free “you have a microsoft login” tier) already have fairly robust controls available for handling and securing private data. There’s even special Azure tiers for government work that are even further secured.
This is only going to impact home users and conpanies without strong IT teams. Which is an egregious amount of people, don’t get me wrong. It’s also a horrible anti-consumer move. But this isn’t “Microsoft fucks over their golden calf: business users”.
As a us organization you can choose between different MS cloud tiers. I know about 3, the basic tier for private customers, tier4 for large corporations and tier 5 for us gov and military organizations. My guess would be that it has something to do with which 3 letter agency can access your cloud data.
