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Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Did I miss something in that article? I see no mention of how to disable this, pricing for cloud storage, etc.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

MS Office is increasingly only sold as part of "Microsoft 365" which already involves paying for cloud storage and copilot and the like.

20 seconds of googling gets me the pricing page for their family (which I think is the same as single seat personal?) plan which is 130 USD a year for

    For one to six people
    Sign in to five devices at once
    Use on PCs, Macs, phones, and tablets
    Up to 6 TB of secure cloud storage (1 TB per person)
    Productivity apps with Microsoft CopilotFootnote1
    Identity,Footnote2 data, and device security
    Ad-free secure email

There may still be some corner case "just MS office" releases that are targeted towards legacy machines in certain regions. But if you try to buy MS Office for whatever reason, that is what you are gonna get.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder what happens to your documents if you stop paying for office.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Not sure on the policy for this (and too lazy to read through the TOS) but the usual standard is:

You have read only access to your data in some form for N months. Sometimes individual, sometimes grabbing the whole dump. If you haven't renewed your license within N months, that data is deleted (but not really).