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It is truly shocking how shit Microsoft is under Nadella. It's like 100× worse than Gates or Balmer. Wild.
So if Microshaft is going to install these products automatically with my copy of Windows, the tools are free to use, right?
I may finally pull the plug on my full conversation to Linux this or next year. I already dual-boot and have been a single inconvenience away from kicking Windows Spyware Edition to the curb, anyways.
I will immediately uninstall it. AI is a MAJOR hindrance to what I use MS Office for.
Krunklom announces he's going to keep using Linux and to kiss his fucking asshole, gently, and delicately, after Krunklom has taken a shit, Microsoft.
I have never been more glad that I made the switch over to Linux.
Yes because that went so well for teams.
Which version lol. Teams? Teams new? Teams classic? Personal teams?
Linc for Business? Skype for Business? OneDrive? SharePoint?
Literally no one on earth, from the admins to the users, likes fucking anything Microsoft does anymore.
Can we please please please tell them to fuck all the way off?
Just because it wasn’t planned doesn’t mean they can’t be obsolete.
And don't get me started on licensing for businesses. Fuck.
I've converted my whole family to LibreOffice. fuck MS
Jesus Fucking Christ. Why would anyone who wants to write a simple letter or some other basic stuff in Word (which is what most of home users do) want any of this crap?
They are really going balls to the wall with this AI crap, huh?
My birthday is next week and for it, I'll be moving to openSUSE on my gaming rig and server. I'm both nervous and excited! If only I could get them to let me do that at work!
Happy Birthday.
Meh. Any word processor or spreadsheet works for me, as long as I don't get pestered.
Gross
Yeah, I've dumped all mikroshite from my devices for FOSS software. Only my work laptop has it and I never do anything personal with that. Libre Office, Thunderbird, Notesnook. Also considering Obsidian and Joplin.
Which one is the Excel replacement and how does it compare? We all know companies buy office mostly just for excel...
LibreOffice Calc. I think it still has some performance issues vs Excel with extremely large files, and it can only do 1024 columns. Also LibreOffice Basic can do a lot of what VBA could but the syntax is different and I don’t think it integrates well with the rest of the system like VBA’s COM integration (as unsafe as that was)
If you aren’t pushing Excel to its absolute limits then it’s more than enough.
What about tables, pivot tables, power query, grouping of rows and columns , and how is formula/function parity (xlookup, index, match, sumproduct, etc)?
I've made some truly Frankenstein sheets that I'm not sure could be stitched together elsewhere.
Why excel for super complex computations? At some point, just code your solution instead... It's easier than troubleshooting Excel
I am having vague nightmares of the Momte Carlo and Black Scholes sheets we would have to compile for financial engineering classes in college...
I don't have any issues. It's free to download to any operating system. So give it a try. See if it can open your existing Excel spreadsheets
I can picture the MS execs going "Shit, we still have 1,000,000 Windows users that are not feeding us their data every second, we're not enshitifying fast enough. Step on it".
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Use Linux.
Use LibreOffice.
Use LibreWolf or WaterFox.
Free yourselves.
If you're in the US, soon this will be arrestable for enabling terrorism.
They might as well kill me if they take away my ability to tinker with computers.
The orange fuck’s vengeance tour for taking away his pedo playtime ain’t making it that far.
Isn't it already bundle with Windows 11? Article doesn't say what's the difference.
It's absolutely everywhere. Have you checked fricking Notepad recently? (I do like the other improvements to it though, tangent)
I don't care on my work PC, not my data, but it's concerning how little control or oversight we're given as users (approx. none).
Wow if only anyone saw this coming
HumanOnEarth announces they will install Linux on all computers going forward
The best thing to do is to convert you closest family and friends. If you're "the computer guy" the chances are you need to support their shitty computers anyway, so you might as well support an OS which is easier to maintain.
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