Just about all of the O365 apps can be run as PWA, with some working better than others. Shifting to a device-centric model would basically make them Apple, but, 30 years late to the party.

I know I’m not offering solutions, but what I will say is, I associate Microsoft with 3 things, now, that were not the case 20 years ago. Their focus is purely about shareholder value, not customer value.

• Data harvesting as a business pillar
• Forced adoption of Copilot (Jamming it into Swiftkey really pissed me off)
• Ads

People shit on Apple a lot, and many for very good reasons, but Apple has the customer base it does because it is actively engaged in keeping them happy with their products, not trying to jam AI down their throats, sell them and their data to the highest bidder, etc. Microsoft has the customer base it does because inertia is hard to break. I’ve never met an Apple user that said “I hate this, I’m going to Windows”. Most Apple users I know are Windows ex-pats.

I know I can’t be on here being all happy about Apple, but I can’t be a Linux fanboy like most of Lemmy, either.