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Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward

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310 points speckx | 3 comments | 27 Aug 25 10:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.438s | source
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yodon ◴[27 Aug 25 12:12 UTC] No.45038582[source]▶
More than anything, Microsoft is incompetent at messaging and communications.

This is a feature that has been among the most loved aspects of its main competitor for more than a decade.

Somehow, Microsoft managed to make the same feature sound and feel and be creepy.

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1. stuaxo ◴[27 Aug 25 12:20 UTC] No.45038672[source]▶
Their competitor is cloud native, so where else would it be stored?

This is still a local app, so it doesn't feel like a natural default.

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2. mc32 ◴[27 Aug 25 12:26 UTC] No.45038722[source]▶
It should be the default for corp accounts. But even home users would benefit form seamless document retrieval (recovery).

Corp users’s biggest IT headache is lost Word or Excel files.

3. Zambyte ◴[27 Aug 25 13:58 UTC] No.45039795[source]▶
Web applications (even those with interactive editing!) can store all data locally instead of remotely if desired. See Excalidraw for a nice example.