This might make sense in office programs, but I'd hate this for program code at least. I think saving should not be needed except when you want to send the fil

This might make sense in office programs, but I'd hate this for program code at least. I think saving should not be needed except when you want to send the file to someone. Work already creates temp files which autosave? Part of me likes the idea of saving being option... just making word autorestore without being prompted. However, that would obviously be a significant, and prohibitively confusing, change in workflow for users. Once you save, you've lost the previous version, especially if the program dies and you lose undo history. In software development specifically, there's quite few tools that automatically pickup/use files when they're saved... Meaning you'll try to compile or use invalid files. tldr; don't do this. word already guards against losing changes anyway.