• LordMayor@piefed.social
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    19 days ago

    “Let’s take the most recognizable software package name and make it something totally divorced from what the software is supposed to be for.”

    There are probably people for whom Microsoft Office is the only desktop software that they use. There are probably many people in procurement that are going to scratch their heads and think twice about signing off on something that sounds like a flight simulator.

    This is an opportunity for alternate office suites.

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      19 days ago

      Its is almost universally the main reason that even a lot of Linux daily-drivers still have a windows install available to them. They fuck up Office enough and there isn’t a reason to even have Windows for most users.

      That’s why they want you to put all your stuff in their dumb cloud, because its the only reason people would keep using this garbage, because they can hold your work ransom in their shitty ecosystem.

      That is the whole business model of tech now. Stealing your shit and selling it back to you. That is it.

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      19 days ago

      For business, they’re locked into Excel, there is no substitute. I can see MS blowing out the remaining home users though.