▲ 958 ▼ Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward (www.ghacks.net) submitted 1 year ago by simple@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 313 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] pinchy@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children) At this point that’s almost like ransomware. permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (2 children) At this point, why even have desktop apps at all? Teams and Outlook are basically busy glorified web browsers that load the online version... Now word is going to send your shit to the cloud whether you like it or not? Google docs does this, but they don't have a desktop app to deceive you with. You create the doc, and edit it where it is, on the cloud, using a web interface that's vaguely "word"-like. The only people this will "help" is all the inept business people that can't figure out where to put their data so it's not lost. There's lots of those. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pinchy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) It’s way better than a web app! it ships with a separate browser the user has zero control over and with more permissions to abuse. /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago Yay webview2! also /s permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (2 children) At this point, why even have desktop apps at all? Teams and Outlook are basically busy glorified web browsers that load the online version... Now word is going to send your shit to the cloud whether you like it or not? Google docs does this, but they don't have a desktop app to deceive you with. You create the doc, and edit it where it is, on the cloud, using a web interface that's vaguely "word"-like. The only people this will "help" is all the inept business people that can't figure out where to put their data so it's not lost. There's lots of those. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pinchy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) It’s way better than a web app! it ships with a separate browser the user has zero control over and with more permissions to abuse. /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago Yay webview2! also /s permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pinchy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) It’s way better than a web app! it ships with a separate browser the user has zero control over and with more permissions to abuse. /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago Yay webview2! also /s permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago Yay webview2! also /s permalink fedilink source parent