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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: 0.208s | source
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ryankrage77 ◴[27 Aug 25 12:02 UTC] No.45038488[source]▶
Microsoft's accouncement: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insider...

Word has defaulted to saving in OneDrive (if you turn on autosave and you're signed into an MS account) for years now, I think since the Office 2016 > Office 365 update. The only real change I see is that the document will now be given a name with the date instead of just 'Document 1'. Maybe it's a little more aggressive about turning on autosave for you? The autorecover location is still in appdata.

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1. TiredOfLife ◴[27 Aug 25 14:06 UTC] No.45039928[source]▶
And you can change default save location in settings. The main change is that clicking new now automatically saves.

In my 10 years using this website daily i am yet to see a microsoft related thread and comments that is not fud, misinformation or straight lies

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2. skywhopper ◴[27 Aug 25 14:14 UTC] No.45040039[source]▶
Microsoft does it to themselves by making poor announcements and making Windows more and more opaque about simple things like “where is this file”?
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3. nashashmi ◴[27 Aug 25 14:43 UTC] No.45040422[source]▶
That’s because Microsoft has a much bigger platform and many more employees that the big picture gets lost quite frequently.

I as a user know more about their products than any three to four of their employees do combined.

4. akimbostrawman ◴[28 Aug 25 11:44 UTC] No.45050976[source]▶
That you can disable it does not make any of the claims of default cloud upload FUD but a fact.