Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I know it’s not exactly the point of the article but for a lot of things, I reckon a good amount of ‘innovation’ was pretty pointless. I personally don’t think I ever needed anything that Office 2003 can’t do… (Of course I don’t use any MS office to begin with but you get the point)
Everything beyond the Dewey decimal system is/was pretty unnecessary, imo. We created a way to organize and “quickly” locate information stored in a physical format.
The near complete lack of manual labor has had many long reaching effects on society.
I type this on my brand new flagship phone…
I’ve been trying tk get family to switch to Linux, but some are irrationally attached to MS Word. I wonder if Office 2003 will run in Wine?
I’ve had success with Office 2010 under Wine.
I’ve heard LibreOffice has settings that make it look like Word
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
=Let(), Lambda and Regex were good additions to Excel imo