▲ 450 ▼ Microsoft won’t support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world 88 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 122 points 2 years ago (5 children) LibreOffice, rise! permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] badbytes@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (4 children) Seriously, why people feel attached to office in 2025. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] toddestan@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) Unfortunately, it's the corporate standard. With that said, it's actually kind of surprising how little I use the Office suite on my work computer (other than Outlook I guess). More and more things are becoming web based. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago It's vendor lockin. Office file formats are not properly open. There is a "temporary" closed bit that they promised to open to get through ISO, but then never did. The whole ISO thing was a massive exercise in corruption. Let alone the fact the reference implementation is closed. Shame Groklaw isn't as easy to search and link now. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) The last time I used LibreOffice was admittedly a couple years ago but it was just plain clunky in comparison to MS Office. Word feels nicer to use than Writer, and Excel is more intuitive than Calc. I'm glad that FOSS alternatives exist, but the older I get the more I turn into a boring normie. Office just works. I can collaborate on our budget with my girlfriend, I can pull up my resume and edit it on my phone, I can share files with my friends or with my boss or with my prof. And I don't have to maintain any infrastructure to do that. I don't have to set up a domain or any kind of server, it's a couple hours' pay. For a year of relatively seamless support. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Last time I used it is probably close to a decade or more now and I had the same experience. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (4 children) Seriously, why people feel attached to office in 2025. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] toddestan@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) Unfortunately, it's the corporate standard. With that said, it's actually kind of surprising how little I use the Office suite on my work computer (other than Outlook I guess). More and more things are becoming web based. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago It's vendor lockin. Office file formats are not properly open. There is a "temporary" closed bit that they promised to open to get through ISO, but then never did. The whole ISO thing was a massive exercise in corruption. Let alone the fact the reference implementation is closed. Shame Groklaw isn't as easy to search and link now. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) The last time I used LibreOffice was admittedly a couple years ago but it was just plain clunky in comparison to MS Office. Word feels nicer to use than Writer, and Excel is more intuitive than Calc. I'm glad that FOSS alternatives exist, but the older I get the more I turn into a boring normie. Office just works. I can collaborate on our budget with my girlfriend, I can pull up my resume and edit it on my phone, I can share files with my friends or with my boss or with my prof. And I don't have to maintain any infrastructure to do that. I don't have to set up a domain or any kind of server, it's a couple hours' pay. For a year of relatively seamless support. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Last time I used it is probably close to a decade or more now and I had the same experience. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) Unfortunately, it's the corporate standard. With that said, it's actually kind of surprising how little I use the Office suite on my work computer (other than Outlook I guess). More and more things are becoming web based. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago It's vendor lockin. Office file formats are not properly open. There is a "temporary" closed bit that they promised to open to get through ISO, but then never did. The whole ISO thing was a massive exercise in corruption. Let alone the fact the reference implementation is closed. Shame Groklaw isn't as easy to search and link now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago It's vendor lockin. Office file formats are not properly open. There is a "temporary" closed bit that they promised to open to get through ISO, but then never did. The whole ISO thing was a massive exercise in corruption. Let alone the fact the reference implementation is closed. Shame Groklaw isn't as easy to search and link now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) The last time I used LibreOffice was admittedly a couple years ago but it was just plain clunky in comparison to MS Office. Word feels nicer to use than Writer, and Excel is more intuitive than Calc. I'm glad that FOSS alternatives exist, but the older I get the more I turn into a boring normie. Office just works. I can collaborate on our budget with my girlfriend, I can pull up my resume and edit it on my phone, I can share files with my friends or with my boss or with my prof. And I don't have to maintain any infrastructure to do that. I don't have to set up a domain or any kind of server, it's a couple hours' pay. For a year of relatively seamless support. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Last time I used it is probably close to a decade or more now and I had the same experience. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Last time I used it is probably close to a decade or more now and I had the same experience. permalink fedilink source parent