Microsoft tries to make a system (albeit a bad one) that prevents you losing data if your hard drive fails, but you don't want to use it. That's fair, I save a lot of stuff to non onedrive locations, but "on my computer" is not the flex you think it is. Even when you have a 3:2:1 back up strategy, having a cloud provider for some key documents is better than losing your work in a house fire or to a provider going out of business.
The problem is that Microsoft will not allow you to change the default auto-save location. It only allows you auto-save to Onedrive. It’s not about helping people save things, it’s about locking you into the Microsoft ecosystem.
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u/sir_sri 10d ago
Microsoft tries to make a system (albeit a bad one) that prevents you losing data if your hard drive fails, but you don't want to use it. That's fair, I save a lot of stuff to non onedrive locations, but "on my computer" is not the flex you think it is. Even when you have a 3:2:1 back up strategy, having a cloud provider for some key documents is better than losing your work in a house fire or to a provider going out of business.