Editing Microsoft Office 365 (section)

=== Automatically saving Word Documents to the Cloud (August 2025) ===
In its company blog, Microsoft announced that Word would from now on create documents and save their autosave information to Microsoft servers by default. This setting can be manually reconfigured to use the local computer.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Munoz |first=Raoul |date=2025-08-26 |title=Save new files automatically to the cloud in Word for Windows |url=https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/save-new-files-automatically-to-the-cloud-in-word-for-windows/4445216 |access-date=2025-08-28 |website=Microsoft 365 Insider Blog}}</ref> 

This leads to all information in the document being uploaded to Microsoft servers even before a user has the chance to select local storage when first saving the document.