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|Type=Digital Ownership, Digital Restriction, Discontinued | |Type=Digital Ownership, Digital Restriction, Discontinued | ||
|Description=Microsoft disabled Microsoft Lens and forced users to use OneDrive to scan documents which does not support local storage of said documents | |Description=Microsoft disabled Microsoft Lens and forced users to use OneDrive to scan documents which does not support local storage of said documents | ||
}}Microsoft disabled Microsoft Lens on 2026/03/09 which forced users to use OneDrive to create digital versions of written documents. Office Lens supported the local storage of these documents whereas OneDrive does not. | }} | ||
[[Microsoft]] disabled Microsoft Lens on 2026/03/09 which forced users to use OneDrive to create digital versions of written documents. Office Lens supported the local storage of these documents whereas OneDrive does not. | |||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
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==Retirement of Microsoft Lens== | ==Retirement of Microsoft Lens== | ||
In | In August 2025,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Perez |first=Sarah |date=2025-08-08 |title=RIP, Microsoft Lens, a simple little app that's getting replaced by AI |url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/08/rip-microsoft-lens-a-simple-little-app-thats-getting-replaced-by-ai/ |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=TechCrunch}}</ref> Microsoft announced that they would be retiring Microsoft Lens on 2025-09-15. This was then moved back to 2026-02-09 when Microsoft Lens was removed from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store and after 2026-03-09, Microsoft Lens was completely disabled on the devices that still had it installed. However, it was still possible to access locally saved documents as long as the user had a Microsoft account with a valid Office 365 subscription.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2026-03-12 |title=Retirement of Microsoft Lens |url=https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/retirement-of-microsoft-lens-fc965de7-499d-4d38-aeae-f6e48271652d#:~:text=The%20Microsoft%20Lens%20app%20will%20be%20retired%20from,capability%20in%20the%20app%20until%20December%2015%2C%202025 |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=Microsoft Support}}</ref> | ||
===Microsoft's Solution=== | ===Microsoft's Solution=== | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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