I can’t recall anymore at which point Microsoft started their efforts to make Windows the most shit as possible , intentionally. I’m not saying Wordpad is something that I use , but… why???
Maybe their telemetry data showed no one actually used it. I used it a few times in the late 90s to write some papers for school, but who is going to do that now when there are so many other options? Even in the 90s it sucked, but it was all I had.
I’d argue M$ has more of a monopoly rhan any other big tech company (except maybe google in search and the mobile OS ecosystem, but at least their mobile OS is FOSS, though they are working on making it worse by removing essential apps from AOSP) and Apple has other issues (A locked down ecosystem, but it doesn’t have a majority market share, luckily, or the world will be an objectively worse place)
I use MS Office 2007 in a Windows XP virtual machine (VirtualBox) on Linux since many years. Zero complaints. There have been technically meaningless changes since 2007 for the OpenXML extended document suite of formats.
Recently I checked the additional benefits of Office versions above 2007.
2010 gives a Protected View sandboxing feature against macros, and decluttering Ribbon with a Backstage extra menu page to save/share documents.
2013 brought a new landing page, a comment markup tool to highlight edited portions and integrating OneDrive.
2016 brought a quick search like tool for doing many complex tasks easily, somewhat like Excel’s formula finder. It also has a handwriting feature for formulaic and polynomial equations.
2019 brought a feature to improve the OneDrive/365 integration by highlighting users who edited a collaboration document. LaTeX was also integrated for math symbols and equations. It brought Dark Mode as well.
2021 brought mostly further improvements to OneDrive/365 co-authoring and collaboration stuff.
Apart from the LaTeX part, most of it is cosmetic or collaboration features meaningless to me, so I find 2007 pretty great. This also highlights Office was practically feature complete back in 2007, and they are just going to make Office 365 Online their whole business besides Azure Cloud in the future from now on.
I can’t recall anymore at which point Microsoft started their efforts to make Windows the most shit as possible , intentionally. I’m not saying Wordpad is something that I use , but… why???
Maybe their telemetry data showed no one actually used it. I used it a few times in the late 90s to write some papers for school, but who is going to do that now when there are so many other options? Even in the 90s it sucked, but it was all I had.
Trying to push M$ office even harder, and also barely anyone uses it.
And notepad is a lot better than it used to be.
Also, calling Microsoft as M$ is pretty cringe, like, are they really any more money grabbing than Apple, Amazon or any other big tech?
I’d argue M$ has more of a monopoly rhan any other big tech company (except maybe google in search and the mobile OS ecosystem, but at least their mobile OS is FOSS, though they are working on making it worse by removing essential apps from AOSP) and Apple has other issues (A locked down ecosystem, but it doesn’t have a majority market share, luckily, or the world will be an objectively worse place)
“M$” was funny on slashdot 20 years ago but it’s a bit tired now.
No longer funny, but very much accurate
Their true business now is to rent Microsoft Office. Windows is now just a means to sell people all kinds of services.
BINGO!
I use MS Office 2007 in a Windows XP virtual machine (VirtualBox) on Linux since many years. Zero complaints. There have been technically meaningless changes since 2007 for the OpenXML extended document suite of formats.
Recently I checked the additional benefits of Office versions above 2007.
2010 gives a Protected View sandboxing feature against macros, and decluttering Ribbon with a Backstage extra menu page to save/share documents.
2013 brought a new landing page, a comment markup tool to highlight edited portions and integrating OneDrive.
2016 brought a quick search like tool for doing many complex tasks easily, somewhat like Excel’s formula finder. It also has a handwriting feature for formulaic and polynomial equations.
2019 brought a feature to improve the OneDrive/365 integration by highlighting users who edited a collaboration document. LaTeX was also integrated for math symbols and equations. It brought Dark Mode as well.
2021 brought mostly further improvements to OneDrive/365 co-authoring and collaboration stuff.
Apart from the LaTeX part, most of it is cosmetic or collaboration features meaningless to me, so I find 2007 pretty great. This also highlights Office was practically feature complete back in 2007, and they are just going to make Office 365 Online their whole business besides Azure Cloud in the future from now on.