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You can just write with LibreOffice. Your example of special acceleration for Apple made software is unfounded.
Well LibreOffice has at its core the ability to deliver me a text editor that starts in 25 seconds versus the 5 of Pages. I’ll stick to the one that saves me time every time I open it.
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You can still proof it. Op is just saying they don't need spellcheck (perhaps because they do have an editor).
Actually the OP specifically said “grammar” checker, which since they can write is likely an intentional distinction. Alternate phrasings reveal the absurd elitism of the statement. “I don’t need a spellchecker because I can spell.” “I don’t need a calculator because I can do math.”
30 years of their home name Office brand, known by pretty much every person that's ever had a computer let's get rid of that, and make the unreliable bullshit generator the main brand instead certainly a courageous decision
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The MacOS copilot implementation is horrid. Takes up a significant amount of screen space just to offer a summary of the email. Cannot turn off. For whatever reason cannot be a simple button with pop up on click. It’s horrid.
> Takes up a significant amount of screen space just to offer a summary of the email. Cannot turn off. For whatever reason cannot be a simple button with pop up on click. Because someone had 'Achieve Copilot feature adoption and utilization > 80%' on their VP level OKRs?
To this day Excel still does not have ribbon shortcuts so for any excel pros, it’s garbage. I have to run excel in a windows emulated environment.
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Office 2003 is my preferred pick for productivity, I use it for all new documents - and best of all there's no ribbon.
Why not LibreOffice?
I should probably give it another whirl, although I'm really happy with 2003.
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Well there is only so much you can do with Word and Outlook. Let's be real the difference between Office 2024 and Office 2019 are largely cosmetic. That stuff stopped being exciting a long time ago.
Excel has interesting new features. It’s the only reason I'm contemplating upgrading.
PS. Nobody I know uses Excel's Turing-complete Lambda-calculus. None of my former colleagues in Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Investor Relations, FP&A use it.
Hate that if you use Word for Mac, you now have Copilot next to your cursor with no way of turning it off. I just want to use Word. I like its print layout features better than Pages. I don't want to switch. Just let me write and leave me alone. Now they're jamming AI down my throat without any opt-out mechanism.
Earlier this month I received a price increase email from Microsoft for Office 365 - to the tune of a 46% increase.
Not too keen on this I went to their website to check to see if there was a cheaper plan, and it turns out there is. You can "downgrade" to a Copilot-free version of Office 365, and this also does away with that absurd 46% increase.
So you get to remove Copilot -and- dodge another year of price increases.
Mini edit: Microsoft have started rolling out a "Turn off Copilot" options in the settings, I have it now in Word, but not in Powerpoint or Excel.