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Oh MicroSlop doesnβt want to exist anymore? π€·π»ββοΈ
They've got plenty of revenue from Azure, Office 365, and other sources. I think what they fail to realize is that all of that is due to the dominance of Windows as a platform. As someone who has to use Azure, I don't think I would, if my company wasn't in the Windows ecosystem. Lots of companies that are locked into Windows still use AWS or Google Cloud instead, because Azure is pretty awful. I can't speak to how it compares to other platforms, but it feels fucking expensive too.
Same for Office, there is no shortage of free/better options for productivity that are merely lacking the close integration Office enjoys with Windows. Once you stop using windows, that benefit very quickly becomes a $140 dollar per user, per year, dead weight.
What are the ways in which MS Office is closely integrated with Windows compared to its Mac port? I often hear user complaints that alternatives to Office on Windows have less intuitive UI and not good enough internationalization support (spell and grammar checking, hyphenation), but they never told me about integration differences.
Works with teams for collaboration, connects to One Drive, which integrates into File explorer and SharePoint. If it actually worked well, it would be a pretty slick ecosystem.
So it's like Google Drive/Docs, but feels like normal files, without a heavy web app tab overhead for every document, thus working faster on cheap office computers?
I guess so, as long as you leave out the whole "working faster on cheap office computers" bit. Windows 11 alone is gonna hork down 4gb of ram, 2 cores, and all of an HDD's IO without even running any applications.