• chunes@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I genuinely, genuinely don’t understand the need for microsoft office. A text editor has sufficed for everything I have ever wanted to do.

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      2 days ago

      Excel spreadsheets bigger than databases. And the userbase doesn’t know any other options because of monopoly.

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        It’s actually amazing that Microsoft has been able to keep their users inside their walled garden for so many decades. When I was a teenager in the 90s, the same argument was used… That their users don’t care to look for other options. And it’s as true now as then.