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Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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[–] Libb@piefed.social 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

At least, reading the post, they seem to still allow their users to turn that off. Not that this concerns me much, I don't use MS.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago

I use it at work and when they upgraded to 11 it took me quite a lot of time to make things usable again including this annoying default

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Weren't there already enough "placebo" settings in Windows? It's primarily about pretending to comply with "data protection" for Europe, for example.