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

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310 points speckx | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 10:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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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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1. 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.