Microsoft Office support in Windows 10 ends in October too - what that really means

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• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It means it’s time for businesses to figure out how to use LibreOffice

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  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I forced it on our office over maybe 15 years ago, I’ve finally just about stopped receiving complaints. The vast majority of the push back was document compatibility, but not in the way you think. The problem was the original document was created by a fucktard or opened by one, so many people don’t know how to correctly format a document using styles, know how to use page breaks, line breaks, etc etc. that’s us recieving documents and creating documents. To be fair I didn’t initially fully understand this as well, but it literally took me 4 hours to read the manual.

    Other problems include Microsoft’s fuckery using a supposedly open standard and allow proprietary code/content within the same open standard.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The number of people who move text around by adding spaces is too damn high!

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or OnlyOffice. It lacks a lot of features but is an easier sell in a lot of cases because of the much more modern interface.

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    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Libreoffice with the ribbon interface looks about the same to me.

      OnlyOffice is basically an electron browser app IIRC which is why the performance is so poor.

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    • chrstph@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      onlyoffice was on my list, but the privacy rating was a dealbreaker for me.

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It would save them so much money!

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  • callcc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Came here to answer this :D surely didn’t read that article

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  • wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is also only office looks modern behaves almost like Microsoft office.

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• Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You have the same options you always had. Upgrade to Windows 11, switch to Apple, switch to *nix.

  I just nuked windows off my last computer and went pure Linux.

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  • Xed@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck windows for doing that; I unintentionally switched to MacOS

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But all of that is just delaying the inevitable. Sooner or later, you’ll have to move to Windows 11 if you want to keep your PC secure and protected and reliably run the applications you need, including Office.

  Lol, no.

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To me it means letting people know that Mint is free and comes with Libre Office, also free.

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  • JoeDyrt@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Works on MacOS too!

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• kepix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  365 is not equals office ltsc. fuck off with the clickbait titles.

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• qwestjest78@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh no, we’ll have to use something other than terrible, AI ridden MS office? How terrible

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• shellington@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  LibreOffice FTW screw Microshaft!

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• Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC and/or Windows 10 IoT LTSC end of life: 2032.

  We good.

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  • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Office is not supported on those platforms at all so won’t make a difference to your support.

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll keep on using Google docs like I do now. BAM

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• Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if this also means that specialty license of 10 that isn’t stopping support. I was considering using that before going to 11. The name escapes me of what it was, though.

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• Octagon9561@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What if you pay for ESU?

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