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Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I get where you're coming from but I think you're overstating the impact in this day and age. If this had been 1995 it'd be a big deal. Now it's rediculously easy to install any alternative you like for free.

Libre Office is an entire free fully features office suite.

I'm less bothered about removing WordPad than I am about Microsoft advertising and pre-installing it's products in Windows - they force Edge on people, they push OneDrive and preinstall a preview of Office. That's the real problem - not losing WordPad.

At one point Anti-Trust / Anti-monopoly regulators globally punished Microsoft for pushing Internet Explorer to consumers and for a long time in Europe had to offer a choice of Browsers to download on new Windows installs. Now it's allowed to get away with abusing it's dominant position to force it's products on consumers.

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Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Does liber office make .docx files and export to pdf?

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- nul9o9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes.
  
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- tool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Does liber office make .docx files and export to pdf?
  
  It does. It’s fine as a replacement for Word, but no one has an answer for Excel. LibreOffice Calc is fine for a basic spreadsheet, but Excel is in a completely different universe than it.
  
  To be fair though, Excel is in a completely different universe than literally any other competing product.
  
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  - ebits21@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think calc is fine for a lot of use cases. I use it all the time. It is different though.
    
    For advanced stuff I’d rather use Python anyway to be honest.
    
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    fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Excel has built-in Python support now. I wish I was joking.
    
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  - localme@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Do you know how both of those compare with Google Sheets?
    
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    bemenaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Nothing compares to excel. There are spreadsheets, and there is excel. The world runs on excel, and for a damn good reason. Also, excel runs the world, literally.
    
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  - msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Just use SQL. Even SQLite.
    
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- schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes, and recent versions of MS Word can also read odt, so no need for docx just to work with Word users.
  
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- Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It wouldn’t be as good as everyone says if it didn’t?
  
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- agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yup
  
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  - Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Nice 👍
    
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talos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I built a new PC two months ago and it’s the first time I didn’t get Office. Libre Office has everything I need and it’s free.

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- boogetyboo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’ve wondered about free suites like these - how do they make money, do you know?
  
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  - insomniac@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They don’t. Libre Office is maintained by a non-profit called The Document Foundation. They’re funded entirely by donations. I think they make enough to have some full time employees.
    
    A lot of open source software is created by individuals or non-profits. The Mozilla foundation makes Firefox, for instance. They make money through donations and also Google pays them a ton of money to be the default search engine.
    
    There are for profit companies that make open source software. Such as Red Hat. They tend to make money by selling support for the software.
    
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  - talos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I don’t think they make money. It’s an open source project where people donate their time as far as I know.
    
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  - LinuxSBC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    A bit of donations, a bit of unpaid people contributing just to help others.
    
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  - ebits21@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Donations. Volunteers.
    
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Sargteapot@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Or you know, google docs is a thing which is free and imo works better than word

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- Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Google docs is still trash though.
  
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  - crossal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    How so?
    
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- MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  A web browser is not a word processor no matter how much they tart it up. If the thing isn’t saving a file to my local drive that is in a common format It’s not worth putting your effort into.
  
  So many kids are going to grow up not having the concept where data lives and what the failure modes are.
  
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  - crossal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    How so? I think you can export in different formats?
    
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