I recently downloaded Microsoft Powerpoint on my Mac. I found out that when I edit my presentation it will actually autosave it to cloud, just like the web app. It was working well for a while. But today I closed my window somehow hours of my progress was gone. Turns out that I ran out of the “free 5gb of storage” and I ran out of storage without noticing it, so it did not save. I’m never going for cloud EVER again. We all make mistakes, and this one taught me a lesson not to use cloud storage. BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP GUYS
The actual problem here isn’t cloud, but the fact that Microsoft Office’s ‘save’ UI/UX is such a shitshow, it’s completely unintuitive as to where a document is being saved. We have a massive problem with this at work, because people frequently accidentally save stuff to OneDrive, rather than on their local PCs, and then completely lose the document.
And this kind of product is being delivered to the newest generation of customers on the company dime of one of the richest developers in the computing business. If that’s not a cryptic message from developers overtop the already extremely capable working machines environment hackers take advantage of every day, what’s in it for the middle men using this kind of garbage software? Surely they must get some compensation out of it! Sometimes I just think it’s gates telling all those people off that didn’t trust in the method. Like yeah, you use that broken shitty software. Go ahead!
Its mainly because Office now defaults its save location to Onedrive. The only real benefit I get is the auto save every 3 seconds. Other than that, I always try and point it to local. However, at work we’re migrating to sharepoint so eventually Onedrive save will always be encouraged.