sounds like a 'service problem' someone once spoke about...
acquire your ms office 'elsewhere' and never link it to a ms account. same with windows. no msa, no 'cloud' to save to.
and there is a service problem here.
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Me me guess - is this so they can train the LLM using the data we're 'giving' them? F U!!
This will be good for the post I saw yesterday where someone was working on some story for weeks and lost it all because they didn't have a backup lol
Isn't this already the default?
I have to change it on every single fuckin document already. Have done so for years now at work.
// I don't use Word outside of work...
It's on per default when signed in to OneDrive. Actually a really nice feature tbh. However, you will be promoted to hell and back if you aren't signed in to OneDrive. I like the feature for work but I don't like the idea of it being the default setting.
yet another reason to ditch microsoft
I don't think that's necessarily a bad idea. Too many people are still not backing up their data, and the article says "...automatically save to OneDrive or your preferred cloud destination".
As long as they really give users full freedom to choose any cloud service, I consider that a win.
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No they won't
Most customers don't want their users saving locally anyway for data protection and not having to do extra compliance and workstation management.
Of course folks here are acting like setting a default they don't like is insane chaos.