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

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310 points speckx | 4 comments | 27 Aug 25 10:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.501s | 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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Xelbair ◴[27 Aug 25 12:20 UTC] No.45038664[source]▶
It's even simpler.

People who wanted that kind of treatment and walled garden already moved to apple's ecosystem, and people who do not want this stayed with windows.

Now more and more of my non-technical friends are moving towards linux because microsoft is pushing them away.

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ubermonkey ◴[27 Aug 25 13:02 UTC] No.45039078[source]▶
I've no idea what you mean by "walled garden" w/r/t MacOS, but I understand it's an article of faith on HN.

Again, for the Nth time, you can run any software you like on a Mac. You can do anything you want. App store? Of course. Direct vendor download? You bet. Build from source? No problem.

Further, this line is out of place here because Microsoft is FAR more invasive about pushing cloud-first storage than Apple has ever been. No app on my Mac default to saving to iCloud. NONE.

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1. Xelbair ◴[27 Aug 25 13:55 UTC] No.45039746[source]▶
You can do whatever you want inside the garden, but moving away from it is becoming increasingly harder and harder - hence walled garden.

you can't bring your software with you, you can't bring your licenses with you, and all services are available only inside it.

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2. doublerabbit ◴[27 Aug 25 14:15 UTC] No.45040053[source]▶
Not sure why you're being downvoted but this is exactly it.

You're forced by what's given to you and can only use within the garden on only the device you own.

3. lokar ◴[27 Aug 25 14:57 UTC] No.45040600[source]▶
Different platforms have always had this property. Was VAX/VMS a walled garden because you had to replace software switching to BSD?
4. ubermonkey ◴[27 Aug 25 19:57 UTC] No.45044370[source]▶
I mean, by that standard Linux is a walled garden, because you probably can't take all your apps and data with you to another system without significant overhead.

I'm no spring chicken. I've had painful migrations. I'm not interested in tools that don't have an exit. Nothing about a normal Mac setup is locked-in. I could migrate my data to Linux, I expect, with minimal hassle. I mean, I wouldn't, because I enjoy the network effects of using the Apple ecosystem, and I find MacOS more pleasing to interact with than any Linux window manager I've yet seen. But it's absolutely possible for me to leave, and simple to do so.

There's no lock in.