Microsoft broke autosave in Word, forcing you to use OneDrive for it

The post about solar panels is from a "volunteer moderator" who doesn't work for Microsoft.

The top answer correctly notes that AutoSave, which is different from AutoRecover, has only ever worked for OneDrive. It seems like the author of the tweet is thinking of AutoRecover, but there's no evidence that AutoRecover is broken beyond one user's vague statement that it didn't work for them.

"Word has never had an AutoSave feature prior to Office 365. It had the AutoRecover feature, which is still there and still saves to %appdata%\Roaming\Microsoft\Word on your C: drive."

Also while that post is confusing and weird, it wasn't written by someone from microsoft.

I've been using libreoffice as a replacement for Word and PowerPoint. Its been working well for me and I recommend at least checking out the project.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Partner uses W10 and O365 for professional editing and proofing, has been hit by word hang problems, almost all traceable to automated saving. Not happy.

Its really funny after so many ears in desktop os advancements, how EMACS and VIM are staying relevant:)