I am an avid SkyDrive user. I pay a large annual fee, along with having bought a tablet I knew I would never use, to get a very large SkyDrive. I love it - it works great. Right up until I installed Office.

The Office SkyDrive integration SUCKS. While all other file types are flawlessly sync'd by the SkyDrive client in Windows, Office tries to handle it itself. I am *constantly* getting error messages that some file or another didn't sync, and that I should "open it in office" to find out why. Ugh.

Please, Microsoft: get rid of the SkyDrive integration into Office! I don't need it! The desktop client works *great*. I'm very tempted to write a script to automatically change the extension of office documents every time I close them so that they'll just use the *regular*, *reliable* drive client.

I've gotten to the office this morning to continue work on a document that I spent a couple of days working on at home. There were a ton of PDF files that I was marking up and whatnot. Those all saved and sync'd flawlessly. The actual document, though, says "SAVE AGAIN: We need to refresh your file with updates. Click Save to try again". What he hell? Three problems:

1. If there's a sync problem, just sync the $%*# thing - why do I have to open the file and click a button? What a huge waste of time!

2. If the file is on my computer, and I've *just opened it*, why would "saving" it do anything at all? It seems this new client is trying to impose a new mental model of the file system, but isn't doing a very good job.

3. If there are updates on some other server, wouldn't hitting "Save" wipe them out? See #2 re new mental model of the disk.

Office team: I get that you wanted to "play too" in the cloud space. But, for the love of all things, if you don't rely on your operating system to operate the disk, what the heck are you trying to turn office into? What's next, managing the heap?

Hi Sir,

Thanks for your advice about the Office suits and SkyDrive. I suggest you submit the advice to Office Dev team time by using Office 2013 new feature. Please click the smiley face in the right top of the screen to submit.

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• Edited by George.Zhao CHNMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 6 hours 42 minutes ago