Dropbox is a cloud-based storage service featuring several plans that let you save files and sync them for easy sharing.

This week, Microsoft quietly announced a small but important change to Word. The popular word-processing software will now automatically save documents to OneDrive, Microsoft's cloud platform.

Word’s testing a new default that saves fresh documents to OneDrive with autosave active. It’s convenient and good for recovery, but it also nudges more files into the cloud unless you opt out.

Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing services over the internet, which can include online storage, media streaming, and more.