Well, “save” and “autosave” are two very different features.
Autosave, yes, that’s a OneDrive specific feature.
Which also has nothing to do with what the article is about - they’re talking about Cloud locations of the user’s choosing, which means it will try to default to things like DropBox or Filen just as much as OneDrive.
I think I accidentally posted that on the wrong comment. My bad.
they’re probably already doing that to a smaller degree, and slightly protecting themselves with an obscure clause in their TOS
As soon as you find proof, you have literally free money up for the taking at any court.
you only lose lawsuits if you get caught - and churning things through AI is a great way to erase any fingerprints that identifies stolen data
That’s… not how any of this works…
Right? People have such immensely weird notions about Office, Microsoft and telemetry, as if they stopped using computers in the 90s and then just read some rage-bait headlines for the last 35 years.
WTF are you talking about, mate?
I’m using Office daily at work. I save data locally non-stop.
I swear to God, this community should be renamed from “Technology” to “Technologically Illiterate”…
“Access” as in: have anything to do with them? Then why tf are you using Word on Windows?
“Access” as in: be able to read them? That would be super illegal for them to do and the easiest class action lawsuit win in history. EU fines would eat them alive.
I have never seen a setup where that’s not the case.
I’ve yet to see a cloud storage solution that doesn’t have offline-storage.
Like… WTF is going on? This is the Technology community, and yet you people come here and comment like you’ve only dealt with computers in the 90s…
The file is saved locally, then - as soon as there’s a network connection - gets uploaded to the Cloud and remains in both locations. You can access it from both “ends” - if you edit it in the Cloud or on a different device, the changes get sync’d down, etc.
Cloud storage has nothing to do with anything/anyone reading the contents of your files.
It’s absolutely mind boggling to me how many completely ignorant people are on the Technology community here.
Just imagining the fines from the “won by default” lawsuits that MS would suffer at the hands of their EU users makes this whole notion hilarious!
What an ignorant thing to say…
That’s not how cloud save works!
The files are saved to local storage that then gets sync’d up to the Cloud. The files are available both on- and offline.
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It didn’t remove anything, they’re just changing the default save location. You can revert it if you want, it’s all in the article…
They’d break SO MANY international and data security laws if they tried breaking into people’s OneDrive, it’d be hilarious to see the number of lawsuits they’d lose by default.
Auto save on cloud sucks
Why?
This is exactly why I love PowerShell.
Need the [DateTime] object from 10 years ago? No biggie, just chuck (Get-Date).AddYears(-10) down your console.
Need it in a specific timezone? That one’s trickier, but since PowerShell can do .Net, run this:
$TargetDateTime = (Get-Date).AddYears(-10)
$TargetTimeZone = "India Standard Time"
$tz = [TimeZoneInfo]::FindSystemTimeZoneById($TargetTimeZone)
$utcOffset = $tz.GetUtcOffset($TargetDateTime)
[DateTimeOffset]::new($TargetDateTime.Ticks, $utcOffset)
And you get a DateTimeOffset object, which is this beauty:
DateTime : 25/08/2015 23:15:14
UtcDateTime : 25/08/2015 17:45:14
LocalDateTime : 25/08/2015 19:45:14
Date : 25/08/2015 00:00:00
Day : 25
DayOfWeek : Tuesday
DayOfYear : 237
Hour : 23
Millisecond : 421
Microsecond : 428
Nanosecond : 600
Minute : 15
Month : 8
Offset : 05:30:00
TotalOffsetMinutes : 330
Second : 14
Ticks : 635761413144214286
UtcTicks : 635761215144214286
TimeOfDay : 23:15:14.4214286
Year : 2015
DateTime is the time in your target timezone, UtcDateTime is, well, the UTC time, and LocalDateTime is the time on host you ran the commands on.
Any time, nutsack.
OK, I’m not really mad at this. I already used Copilot to design a table for me in Excel and it worked really well. It did everything for me, and I just had to copy-paste the formulas into their appropriate spots. If it’s built-in, possibly will work better.
Not everybody needs to be an Excel expert, after all. Having that functionality might be actually beneficial.
You’re right, my bad for misunderstanding.