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Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive

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On 4/8/2025 5:57 PM, Jack wrote:
> On 08/04/2025 22:23, Newyana2 wrote:
>> In MS Office you're talking about?
>>     I may be mistaken, but I thought I read that the
>> free MSO 365 was not going to allow saving files
>> locally, making it a fully online service. (Well, except
>> for the fact that it's installed locally!)
> 
> Where did you read this crap? Please provide a link for that so that
> they can be forced to make a correction before spreading fake
> information. This will all be done by Microsoft lawyers but some
> evidence is required before any action can be taken. Have you taken the
> trouble to try it out yourself before amplifying the fake story
> yourself. You should lean not to trust everything you read from
> click-bait web sites.
> 

Actually it was more a question. I said I wasn't sure. But since
the only response I got was rabid hysteria from an MS shill,
I decided to check it out.

   This may be what I was thinking of:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/can-i-save-my-word-or-excel-document-to-my/edeb7eec-8448-4e1d-9383-6347e1db64a0

  "Here is the challenge with the Office 365 free web, it works with 
onedrive only. So if you want to work on the file, the file has to be in 
the onedrive folder on your device and in the cloud. If you move the 
file out of the synced onedrive folder on your device, it will be 
deleted in the cloud."

    So apparently the files are only saved in the OneDrive
folder locally, and online, and if they're moved from the
folder they'll be deleted online. Not an intuitive approach,
to be charitable.

   When Adobe went rental, the default save was online in
their special format. People in the photo newsgroup were
saying that if someone cancelled their subscription without
knowing enough to save their work out separately in common
formats would lose their work.

   This sounds similar. People can apparently copy out from
OneDrive if they know to do that, but the files are
not entirely under their control, as MS are trying to present
their online office as being truly online. One more step toward
kiosk rental Windows.

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Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-04-08 14:58 +0200
  Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Jack <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-08 14:30 +0100
    Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-08 12:31 -0400
      Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-04-08 18:56 +0200
  Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-04-08 19:19 +0100
    Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-04-08 20:39 +0200
      Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive MikeS <mikes@is.invalid> - 2025-04-08 20:37 +0100
        Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-04-09 09:23 +0200
          Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-04-09 04:14 -0700
            Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive MikeS <mikes@is.invalid> - 2025-04-09 15:31 +0100
              Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-04-09 11:16 -0700
  Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-08 17:23 -0400
    Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Jack <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-08 21:57 +0000
      Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-08 20:36 -0400
  Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-08 18:00 -0400
  Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-09 01:35 -0500
    Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-04-09 09:25 +0200
  Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Philip Herlihy <nothing@invalid.com> - 2025-04-09 15:01 +0100
  Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Fokke Nauta <usenet@solfon.nl> - 2025-04-10 15:14 +0200
    Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-10 14:48 -0500
      Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-04-11 13:28 +0200
        Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-11 08:04 -0400
          Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-04-11 21:17 +0200
            Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-04-12 19:52 +1000
              Re: Documents are by default stored in OneDrive Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-04-13 19:29 +0200

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