Word Documents Will Now Be Saved To the Cloud Automatically On Windows (ghacks.net)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/27/1955256/word-documents-will-now-be-saved-to-the-cloud-automatically-on-windows
- Source link: https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/27/your-word-documents-will-be-saved-to-the-cloud-automatically-on-windows-going-forward/
> "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. 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. While cloud saving is without doubt beneficial in some cases, Munoz fails to address the elephant in the room. Some users may not want that their documents are stored in the cloud. There are good reasons for that, including privacy.
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> Summed up:
> - If you do not mind that Word documents are stored in the cloud, you do not need to become active.
> - If you mind that Word documents are stored in the cloud by default, you need to modify the default setting.
[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/27/your-word-documents-will-be-saved-to-the-cloud-automatically-on-windows-going-forward/
MS Mindcropper (Score:2)
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Probably have to buy the "Enterprise Gold-Pro++ VIP Edition" to have it disabled.
Lawfirms, hospitals, public companies (Score:2)
Are they going allow MS to pull in all these documents without signing ironclad NDAs?
And Microsoft is going spend all this money to store all these documents without charging more? Or do these documents have some non-obvious value?
If I have access to every document at every company... Hmmmm.
Re: Lawfirms, hospitals, public companies (Score:2)
Of course companies and organizations will be able to block this behavior when they run Windows Enterprise Edition.
Windows Professional is just Windows Prosumer now.
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> If I have access to every document at every company... Hmmmm.
I think they already do, I mean companies that subscribe O365 already get cloud space and certainly tell their employees to use it, as it simplifies the life of the IT guy. Nothing to do about backups, and nothing to do when swapping an employee laptop.
Frustrating for those who know directories (Score:2)
I hate the modern users who can't organize their files and are fine with the cloud just storing their stuff for them. This creates two problems:
For me having microsoft automatically store things where I don't want them to store it (and my current version of word at work won't let me change this), means that when I restart my work I have two copies of my work. The one I stored on MY machine and the one microsoft stored for me. More than once I've started using the wrong one and had to merge my work later
Laggy (Score:2)
Everything seems to go slower when you are using the cloud.
Explain something to me. Like I'm an idiot. (Score:2)
How is storing in the cloud "improving" security? I keep getting this message from the big tech companies, but none of them have given me any form of an explanation how storing something in the cloud is *MORE* secure. How is shoveling my data out to someone else's server, who may or may not have decent security, more secure?
Yet another step down the "we own your data" path for Microsoft. What a load of garbage.
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It improves security against local hardware failure for people without redundant systems set up.
It degrades security in every other possible way.
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The easy explanation is, "marketing".
But if you squint the right way, it isn't quite a lie.
Textbook definitions of "security" in an IT context tend to emphasize integrity, confidentiality, and availability. I suspect if pressed they'd emphasize "availability" and maybe "integrity" - they hired some dude to swap backup tapes and replicate to distributed DCs, and the average Windows user does not.
Of course that comes at the cost of "confidentiality", which they'll downplay.
We are the msBorg .. (Score:2)
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All your base are belong to us (Score:1)
...now
More fully summed up (Score:2)
- You need to stop using Word
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They will default everything to the cloud such that after some time of use, it will tell you there's not enough space in the free version and you now should pay monthly. (Plus the free benefit of spying, of course.)
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It's their only road to profitability: lock in users to the Snoop Cloudy Cloud or else Android and Linux will slowly nibble away their business.