The auto-save in Google Docs is undoubtedly better, but it was possible to set an auto-save interval in minutes on Word 6.0 for Windows 3.1. Back then, Word's

The auto-save in Google Docs is undoubtedly better, but it was possible to set an auto-save interval in minutes on Word 6.0 for Windows 3.1. Back then, Word's auto-save updated the file that you were working on rather than creating a separate backup file. I liked that better, though there might have been a good reason for changing approaches in later versions of Word.