How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?
So if Microshaft is going to install these products automatically with my copy of Windows, the tools are free to use, right?
I may finally pull the plug on my full conversation to Linux this or next year. I already dual-boot and have been a single inconvenience away from kicking Windows Spyware Edition to the curb, anyways.
*conversion
It is truly shocking how shit Microsoft is under Nadella. It’s like 100× worse than Gates or Balmer. Wild.
What’s really wild is that people put up with this shit.
For me the straw that broke the camel’s back was finding out thatsystem32is owned by the installer user and I’d have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make any changes there.
And here people are like: “Sure, show me ads in the OS I bought.” While the apologists go: “You can disable those in the registry.”
I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO!The moment I have to wrestle the OS for control over my computer it ceases to be useful and becomes a burden.
Balmer and Gates worked their way up, especially Gates from basically nothing. They understood mostly what their customers wanted. But Nadella only understands short term revenue. Not the longtime customers.
I will immediately uninstall it. AI is a MAJOR hindrance to what I use MS Office for.
Krunklom announces he’s going to keep using Linux and to kiss his fucking asshole, gently, and delicately, after Krunklom has taken a shit, Microsoft.
I have never been more glad that I made the switch over to Linux.
I’ve converted my whole family to LibreOffice. fuck MS
Yes because that went so well for teams.
Which version lol. Teams? Teams new? Teams classic? Personal teams?
Linc for Business? Skype for Business? OneDrive? SharePoint?
Literally no one on earth, from the admins to the users, likes fucking anything Microsoft does anymore.
Can we please please please tell them to fuck all the way off?
Just because it wasn’t planned doesn’t mean they can’t be obsolete.
At my job we really miss Skype, sure it was a bloated system on the end. But we could send files to customers during video conferences. They could send back their edits and so on.
With Teams I can barely send an emoji to my customers. Not to mention the bug with the “the other person might use Skype for business”. No, they are using Teams, both my customer and I have to force close Teams and restart for it to recognize us both using latest Teams version.
And don’t get me started on licensing for businesses. Fuck.
fuck no. I am not installing their SaaS bullshit. I have old editions for a reason.
They are really going balls to the wall with this AI crap, huh?
My birthday is next week and for it, I’ll be moving to openSUSE on my gaming rig and server. I’m both nervous and excited! If only I could get them to let me do that at work!
Happy Birthday.
Jesus Fucking Christ. Why would anyone who wants to write a simple letter or some other basic stuff in Word (which is what most of home users do) want any of this crap?
Meh. Any word processor or spreadsheet works for me, as long as I don’t get pestered.
Gross
Yeah, I’ve dumped all mikroshite from my devices for FOSS software. Only my work laptop has it and I never do anything personal with that. Libre Office, Thunderbird, Notesnook. Also considering Obsidian and Joplin.
Obsidian is sadly not FOSS, but aside of that, it’s amazing (and entirely user-supported, not relying on VC profit-seeking).
Which one is the Excel replacement and how does it compare? We all know companies buy office mostly just for excel…
LibreOffice Calc. I think it still has some performance issues vs Excel with extremely large files, and it can only do 1024 columns. Also LibreOffice Basic can do a lot of what VBA could but the syntax is different and I don’t think it integrates well with the rest of the system like VBA’s COM integration (as unsafe as that was)
If you aren’t pushing Excel to its absolute limits then it’s more than enough.
You could try SoftMaker office for 30 days to see if their version of Excel is better.
Yearly subscription: https://www.softmaker.com/en/products/softmaker-office/download Perpetual license: https://www.softmaker.com/en/products/softmaker-office/download-permanent-version Comparing the different versions: https://www.softmaker.com/en/products/softmaker-office/order-all
Bonus is that the license will work regardless if you use Linux, Mac or Windows. And the 2024 version is GDPR compliant.
What about tables, pivot tables, power query, grouping of rows and columns , and how is formula/function parity (xlookup, index, match, sumproduct, etc)?
I’ve made some truly Frankenstein sheets that I’m not sure could be stitched together elsewhere.
Why excel for super complex computations? At some point, just code your solution instead… It’s easier than troubleshooting Excel
I don’t have any issues. It’s free to download to any operating system. So give it a try. See if it can open your existing Excel spreadsheets
I am having vague nightmares of the Momte Carlo and Black Scholes sheets we would have to compile for financial engineering classes in college…
