That’s clearly for Copilot to scan all your documents for "indexing" without your consent

The change is designed to make it easier for users to back up and access their documents across devices

Bullshit. The change is so microsoft can mine more data to feed openai.

Yet another reason to use alternatives to Microsoft.

Oh no! Guess I better continue to use Libre Office instead.

It seems like every new day has a new reason to remind me why I'm glad I ditched Microsoft.

They did this already with Excel, and broke a lot of macros. Also changed how it could use IE for automation, and of course there's no way to convert it to Edge. If Microsoft didn't have 99% of the business world already tied up in their stuff they'd go out of business soon for the stupid things they break of their own products.

Although it took me forever to switch to linux I switch to libreoffice in the early twenty teens I think. Once you could export to pdf it became the better way.

Microsoft is steering customers to Linux

Thanks, I hate it.

Meh. That's why LibreOffice exists.

Congratulations, you've just won the play stupid games and win stupid prices game.

No reason to complain, your documents can now be handed over to the authorities quickly and efficiently without any inconvenience to you, and we will also use them to train AI.

In the near future:
You can now open all your documents from OneDrive for the low price of 10 cent per document per time you open it. Also you don't have to worry about where to store anymore, it's all completely locked in to Microsoft formats, so you can't really move it to another platform anyway.

"All your files are belong to us"

I was trying to create an Excel pie chart based on a downloaded CSV file. No big, but something I might only need once a year. Couldn't remember the PivotTable params. Search in help. It offers to do it for me. Sure, I think, not realizing it would try to turn on CoPilot, then try to upload the file to their cloud for analysis, then save it to OneDrive cloud.

The only thing that stopped it was that by default the 'auto-save' toggle wasn't on. So it stopped and complained. Killed it and started over, making sure everything was local. Ugh.

Nice try M$, I completely removed OneDrive from all of my Win11 installs. It still tries to get me to save to the folder that once upon a time was OneDrive by default. Auto save off, and save as on every save and select the folder on my file server.

But they've been doing that for ages. I had to change it more than a year ago.

Before I got really into FOSS, there was a glitch at my college which revoked my Office365 licence. I switched to LibreOffice and never looked back, even when the glitch was patched.

OneNote stopped working for me because of some OneDrive connectivity issue. It wouldn't give me the option to just save locally

Rather than fight with it, I just stopped using it. There are other note taking programs

It's no a privacy issue to me, it's usability. My harddrive is always there and connected. The internet and OneDrive are not. More than anything else, availability is the #1 thing I need with basic office applications

I've spent the last year or so migrating small businesses to Linux.

Thus far none of them want to go back and this announcement is just another reason for people to move away from them.

Isn't onedrive a paid feature? What if you don't pay for it?