Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users

• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s like saying you can continue to do business with the guy who keeps trying to stab you if you keep out of arm’s reach.

  It’s not wrong, but it’s not addressing the underlying problem.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What? Do you NOT do business regularly with Roberto from Futurama?

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    • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Roberto is a special case. For him it isn’t a choice, for microsoft it is.

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If someone is feeling locked into the Microsoft ecosystem, empowering them to unshackle themselves from a large part of it is important. It makes the transition later so, so much easier when you don’t need to figure out OS-agnostic softwares across the board.

    That said, if you are thinking of ripping the band-aid off all at once, I am 100% on board with it. Just not everyone is ready for it.

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  • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was the direction I was getting. Plus linux works fine without TPM 2.0, unlike windows 11. So no real need to axe existing hardware, and unlike the bad old days your hardware is likely well supported.

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• meeeeetch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can just switch to Libre, but as Microsoft products (even paid) enshittify and as the Linux scene makes itself more user friendly, switching the rest of the way over just kind of starts to make sense.

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does it have an email/collab product line Outlook yet?

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thunderbird would be the go-to product for emails.

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thunderbird lacks calendar, shared scheduling, and a number of other collab features.

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      • Takios@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thunderbird has a calendar by default now.

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  • heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does it have an email

    It’s for text and spreadsheet. It’s not a media player either. Nor is it a new operating system.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just switched the M365 yesterday and it is atrocious, I would argue that “like outlook” would mean fucking infuriatingly shit.

    I wish my company would go away from them, gsuite was really good but they are also a shit company.

    M365 is trying to do too much with everything it has.

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Whether you like it or not, it’s almost the defacto for business collaboration.

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      • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah I have heard it is far more popular than google in the states. I would champion neither but google are definitely better UI designers in my book. For something with so many features I can never get M365 to do what I want.

        It is also hectic the amount of sites it connects to, live, microsoft, outlook, copilot, m365…gsuite was just fluid - once you were in you could open anything and be fine, this keeps asking for permission and to relog in for each app.

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cough except for legginess on Wayland cough

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  you don’t even have to

  Yes you do, that’s the point. Dump all Microsoft crap, dump Google, dump apple

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