why didn’t they just ask chat peepee to write an office suite for them? i heard it’s really good at code 🫣

Old and busted:

Running your badly written bullshit on a bundled Chromium instance.

New hotness:

Running your badly written bullshit on a bundled office suite.

Future:

Running your badly written bullshit on an office suite running through Wasm on a Chromium instance inside of a virtual machine.

Whatever it takes to not have to make developers have to learn to write code again.

Wow! If only I could get LibreOffice for free without ChatGPT.

Weird. I would have expected them to rather illegally bundle a pirated Microsoft Office with it.

Is that legal?

... But why?
Surely there are openxml packages for their platform that dont need a full office installation/redistrubution. Like how with c# there is the openxml package. Hell, worst case you have it do word tasks on the server via api. Api already can do it for the online chatgpt...

Looks like it's some kind of dependency… seems very odd though, why is this included? Are they using it to handle .docx, .xlsx, etc files? I remember being tempted to do that once years ago when I ran into one of those Really Hard Problems that would take weeks to solve. I spent the weeks instead

ahhh, the trick has been dispelled. it isn't as magical as i thought it was.