Comment on Microsoft Office support in Windows 10 ends in October too - what that really means

Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I forced it on our office over maybe 15 years ago, I’ve finally just about stopped receiving complaints. The vast majority of the push back was document compatibility, but not in the way you think. The problem was the original document was created by a fucktard or opened by one, so many people don’t know how to correctly format a document using styles, know how to use page breaks, line breaks, etc etc. that’s us recieving documents and creating documents. To be fair I didn’t initially fully understand this as well, but it literally took me 4 hours to read the manual.

  Other problems include Microsoft’s fuckery using a supposedly open standard and allow proprietary code/content within the same open standard.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The number of people who move text around by adding spaces is too damn high!

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    • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Who needs align right when you can just hold the space-bar till it’s there, or if you are a pro tab then space for perfect alignment

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      • Ageroth@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I have spent the last several weeks re-creating documents like this there were developed and maintained by one guy for 38 years.
        There’s a half page drawing done in word that is lines and boxes and text all as text and positioned with spaces and tabs. I think I took a screenshot of it and just made it all one picture

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Did they learn to type on a typewriter?

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Or OnlyOffice. It lacks a lot of features but is an easier sell in a lot of cases because of the much more modern interface.

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  • chrstph@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    onlyoffice was on my list, but the privacy rating was a dealbreaker for me.

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    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Wow, that’s super disappointing but not incredibly surprising. The developers don’t seem as transparent as other projects I’ve interacted with.

      I always install from their github, which I speculate (assume? hope?) does not include these trackers because they would be visible. Is there any way to reliably find out?

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        app manager can scan the APK for trackers and other program libraries. it won’t work reliably though if the app has been obfuscated

        f-droid.org/…/io.github.muntashirakon.AppManager

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  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Libreoffice with the ribbon interface looks about the same to me.

    OnlyOffice is basically an electron browser app IIRC which is why the performance is so poor.

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    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s a trade-off for sure, but they’re both free/FOSS. So it’s worth test driving both.

      I used primarily open office and Libreoffice 10-15 years ago and it was dated then but competitive. Trying it this year left me feeling like it hadn’t gotten much interface work in that time.

      I really wish the team would invest in a serious overhaul that’s long overdue. The back end, especially when it comes to huge files, outperforms onlyoffice by a mile. But for me, only office is faster to use because the navigation is so much easier.

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It would save them so much money!

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• callcc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Came here to answer this :D surely didn’t read that article

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• wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There is also only office looks modern behaves almost like Microsoft office.

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