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Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default — the opt-out toggle is not that easy to find (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/privacy

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is that? Is there just not enough support for exporting existing data across or does Excel have more features?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Every large company has sunk countless hours into training people, designing sheets, writing macros etc. Trying to move all that to a different product would be hugely painful and disruptive to everyday operations, because all of that would have to be redone and relearned. No company is going to do that.