mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoMicrosoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matterswww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square69linkfedilinkarrow-up1291arrow-down17
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minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51arrow-down1·1 year agoYou know how many times I’ve had to tell someone that document they created and have been working on for days was never saved even once and can’t really be recovered?
minus-squareKomodo Rodeo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·1 year agoLemme guess, hundreds-to-thousands, also the people you’re telling it to have business degrees and $100K+ salaries?
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 year ago$1000/hr billing rates yes. Maybe 10 ppl/year.
minus-squaredindonmasker@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoI really hope they are incredibly good at a very specific thing that has nothing to do with where tf are their files.
minus-squareErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoPresumably it’s selling snake oil and convincing people to trust them?
minus-squaremyplacedk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoI remember this. From the 90’s. Autosave has existed AND been the default so long that taking it for granted is now actually okay. This is not related cloud storage or corporates spying on users. It’s just autosave. That’s all it takes.
minus-squaremyplacedk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoOnce upon a time it was like that. I don’t remember which decade I saw that last.
minus-squaregreasewizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agowell now you’ll have to instruct them on how to find anything they saved in onedrive
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThat’s what they changed. It’s saved to onedrive by default now.
minus-squaregreasewizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·1 year agoRight, I’m saying that the users too incompetent to save a word doc will be incompetent to find the new save location
You know how many times I’ve had to tell someone that document they created and have been working on for days was never saved even once and can’t really be recovered?
Lemme guess, hundreds-to-thousands, also the people you’re telling it to have business degrees and $100K+ salaries?
$1000/hr billing rates yes. Maybe 10 ppl/year.
I really hope they are incredibly good at a very specific thing that has nothing to do with where tf are their files.
Indeed.
Presumably it’s selling snake oil and convincing people to trust them?
I remember this. From the 90’s.
Autosave has existed AND been the default so long that taking it for granted is now actually okay.
This is not related cloud storage or corporates spying on users. It’s just autosave. That’s all it takes.
Gotta save once first.
Once upon a time it was like that. I don’t remember which decade I saw that last.
well now you’ll have to instruct them on how to find anything they saved in onedrive
That’s what they changed. It’s saved to onedrive by default now.
Right, I’m saying that the users too incompetent to save a word doc will be incompetent to find the new save location