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Microsoft in a nutshell… I swear they offplanered their ux people to the moon where they couldn’t do anything. Or they have no ux people. Or their ux people have no effect.
They fired all the testers and figured user telemetry could be everything they need.
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What features in Office are essential for those users that you don't get from Google? If you're talking about Excel I can imagine there are such features but not so much in other apps.
I am exclusively Google office user, but... Out of the top of my head: * Google docs are uglier than Microsoft word documents. This matters when I prepare an offer that I want to send to a client, and it should look good. * Google slides are hideous, and the only reason I get away with using them is because programmers (including me) have no taste[1] * Related to the looks, I sometimes buy paid document templates tha…
This time I almost believe them as there seems to be no alternative to LibreOffice given the changes Microsoft introduced during the recent years - forcing everyone to log-in with their Microsoft account at best, also moving from a classic desktop app to a web app. Conservative users like me and probably German state institutions consider classic desktop apps and web apps distinct tools for different tasks and don't want their desktop to depend on cloud.
It is also worth mentioning that LibreOffice became much better since the time the discussion began.
Can anyone tell me what this means: "Other countries, notably China, have proverbs that say they are much more stubborn when shifting gears from Windows to Linux." Proverbs? A stitch in time saves nine. Many hands make light work. Please, anyone, show me a proverb that says "they are much more stubborn when shifting gears from Windows to Linux."
No tux, no bucks! Wait, that would be the other way around.
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Without an actual design vision, all open source software will flounder and never replace commercial counterparts.
Gimp, blender, firefox and obs are all very successful OSS alternatives that come to mind.
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> Very hard for me to understand why, in a world of Google docs, anyone would want to deal with the bloated mess that is ms office. For knowledge workers who live in these tools, the difference is stark. Even for companies who've standardized on Google Workspace or Apple iWork, advanced users will need Microsoft Office.
This is true. Among other things, I do a lot of label printing and the tools in MS Word are miles more mature. You get these same types of responses when people list off all the alternatives to Photoshop. Just not the same.
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Suggestions based on ignorance of the product isn't the best place to start.
This. Believe me, Office and Office clones are very distinguishable. It's like saying a Macdonalds burger is indistinguishable from a Gordon Ramsey burger. They may both be food, but they are very much not the same thing. There's a reason people use Office. Pretending that reason does not exist does not make the argument for switching better.
Very hard for me to understand why, in a world of Google docs, anyone would want to deal with the bloated mess that is ms office. I was helping an elderly relative who works as a translator and hasn’t touched a modern version of word in about 5 years. They had a new computer and I got an ms office sub for them. The poor person re-did about 4 hours of their work 3x because they couldn’t find the file MS Word had guara…
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What features in Office are essential for those users that you don't get from Google? If you're talking about Excel I can imagine there are such features but not so much in other apps.
I am exclusively Google office user, but... Out of the top of my head: * Google docs are uglier than Microsoft word documents. This matters when I prepare an offer that I want to send to a client, and it should look good. * Google slides are hideous, and the only reason I get away with using them is because programmers (including me) have no taste[1] * Related to the looks, I sometimes buy paid document templates tha…
We should just all get off our butts and learn LaTeX! Not that I have. ahhahahaha.