Holy crap! Latest version of Microsoft Word can scrape the contents of your documents. - ThreadSky

qwerteaparty.bsky.social•162 days ago

Kumquat

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fetchstep.bsky.social•157 days ago

Does the Defence department and or security agencies know their data is being scrapped and stored at Microsoft ?

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ianmalcolm.bsky.social•162 days ago

📌

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amiyajlo.bsky.social•162 days ago

ahhhhh sucks, immma use my word 2007 version or '16 version!

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yugee.bsky.social•162 days ago

That’s why I’m a Mac Apple person!

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revardin.bsky.social•162 days ago

At least with Apple there’s a simple toggle under Settings to switch it all off

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yugee.bsky.social•162 days ago

This is what happens when you don’t update you know nothing 😬😬😂😂😂

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revardin.bsky.social•162 days ago

YUGEE! You should update just for the security fixes 🤣

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yugee.bsky.social•162 days ago

Ok ok ok … I will get around to it !!!

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revardin.bsky.social•162 days ago

🤣

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revardin.bsky.social•162 days ago

Makes me wonder what’s in store for us with Apple Intelligence 🤔

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yugee.bsky.social•162 days ago

I think they are watching reactions and sales to Microsoft Samsung Google etc also Apple and Mac ppl creative / business so different client base they might just do stuff that adds rather than invades ????? I don’t know … I’m not such a tech person but I love the irony of every bad speller and

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yugee.bsky.social•162 days ago

and writers with grammar issues don’t have to worry about failing at school or being ribbed at work …

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danielcohen.bsky.social•162 days ago

The big thing about Apple anything is that they are like every other company, except secretive with their data … it’s for their own use.

Other platforms will actively on-sell your data.

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dbartram.bsky.social•162 days ago

The same thing is going on in the Mac version of Word:

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revardin.bsky.social•162 days ago

I've stuck with Pages even though its crap 🤣

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debbrich.bsky.social•162 days ago

Me too. 😩

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revardin.bsky.social•162 days ago

Remember Clippy? Was he the bogan version of AI?

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yugee.bsky.social•162 days ago

That is taking me waaaay back !

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yugee.bsky.social•162 days ago

Ooo I’ve not updated maybe that’s why ????? TBH I’m not on much anymore since I stopped working … so I’m totally out of touch 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

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dbartram.bsky.social•162 days ago

LibreOffice for me.

Linux/Ubuntu as well -- if Microsoft is going to scrape Word documents, why wouldn't they use Windows to scrape everything else as well?

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