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Re: Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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It's a good analogy. Balmer went into the right direction (cloud), but with the wrong execution. Nadella is also going into a sensible direction (ai), but the execution is abysmal. Instead of focusing on properly executing a handful of projects where AI could be leveraged successfully, they went all in on AI everywhere with only a very handful of useful tools.

CEOs mostly just set direction, the workforce remains the same (sans mass-layoffs).

No, they also approve major decisions that affect that directional change.

This was approved by the CEO, without doubt.

Re: Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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This is getting bizarre, worse than Balmer's Microsoft.

Artificial Intelligence! Artificial Intelligence! Artificial Intelligence! Ah the 90s were great.

Hi, I'm Clippy! It looks like you're trying to exterminate all humans. Would you like to invite The Doctor?

Re: Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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Actually LibreOffice has better backward compatibility than MS Office now. If you have a MS Office 2003 file that current MS Office can't open, try LibreOffice.

LibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.

"I don't like X, so I'm guessing Y is bad."

Re: Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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Actually LibreOffice has better backward compatibility than MS Office now. If you have a MS Office 2003 file that current MS Office can't open, try LibreOffice.

LibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.

Doubt what you like, but I "rescued" old MS Office documents for my grandfather with that. Also this is a common fear when leaving MS Office, so you can bet they work on that. I never had someone complain over OO-compatibitlity until now, so there is that.
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