Post #2587169

2022-11-19 12:33 UTC

@polroc@mastodon.social That's a really difficult one. MS Office is bad because it traps you in a dreadful ecosystem through the myth of "compatibility" which they reinforce by making their products deliberate obscure. Google doesn't do that, but they do trap people in their ecosystem by making it actually bloody good, and difficult to replicate in any other way. @ProfessorPootis@guild.pmdcollab.org @glaber@mastodon.green @thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social

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@Majik@mastodon.cloud 2022-11-19 12:35

@polroc@mastodon.social Of course, as tools like Next loud catch up, that may change. But I find it hard to completely criticise a service that's popular because it's good and that is incentivised to continue to improve. @ProfessorPootis@guild.pmdcollab.org @glaber@mastodon.green @thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social

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@polroc@mastodon.social 2022-11-19 12:36

@Majik@mastodon.cloud Oh, I know, I know. Personally, I switched to LibreOffice and storing my documents in XML open formats long ago. I am a translator, I work with CAT software like OmegaT, and I do really value the flexibility of all the open/free aspects of these tools and formats. At least for offline edition. However, as you mention, the features of the Google Suite are extremely valuable for corporate, team work, and hardly replicable in any other fashion. Their win, may we like it or not! 😉

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