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Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 1 year agoSo what you are saying is that MS is still incentivizing universities with cheap copies and licenses so that companies will use MS Office?
That doesn’t mean that you, as a consumer, at all need MS Office just like you, as a consumer, do not need Adobe Acrobat in any form.
But, if you have an effectively free license, you might well use it.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 year ago
What I’m saying is that despite anyone’s thoughts or feelings MSO is in no way shape or form dead. It is the standard that all other Office Applications and Suites are judged against. None of us have to like it but its not going anywhere. Windows itself will die before MSO does.
As someone who installed Slackware 3.1 from floppy disk in 1996 I’m a veteran of the OS and Application Holy Wars. The fact is our wishes don’t matter, most businesses will make the easy purchase and most users will follow along with that at home and the easy purchase is Microsoft.
Microsoft has already shown success at getting Home Users to sign up for Microsoft Family in order to get MSO. So while us olds may remember the “better” GUIs of previous versions of Office, which were hated in their day too, there’s now over a decade of users who are used to the Ribbon. When they fire up Open or Libre all they think is “Ewww, this looks old!” You may as well tell them to install WordPerfect 7.
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah. Well, just so long as you are in your thirties then I am sure you require ms office for personal use and totally aren’t wasting money.