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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have they tried making a product that isn't shit?

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The sad part is, I think they have...

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remember when the world wasn't fucked up and Microsoft got spanked just for including IE in the OS? Look at the shit these fucks get away with now.

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I remember when microsoft office 365 was a thing for college students and the free version that everyone used had 80% access to the programs with, "some features," grayed out in drop down menus.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Has Libreoffice or Linux profitted off of Genocide like Microsoft has? No? Why are you using Microsoft then?

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The thing is, if this meant anything it would've shut down LibreOffice years ago. It's not illegal to be in the likeness of something. Look at Fender Bass Guitars and Sadowsky Bass Guitars. Sadowsky is in the likeness of Fender and they're indirect competition. The difference is, is that Fender isn't a baby about it.

Microslop is just fucking butthurt that people don't want to pay to read documents.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Our monopoly is providing so little value for consumers that they've started to make the products for themselves!"

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[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lmfao Save the installation file while you can. I love LibreOffice. Shit's saved me so much time and money. Not gonna lie it's fucking scummy to begin with to lock the main document reading program of the operating system itself and forcing users to pay an annual service fee while the program itself runs like total shit and notoriously has ran like shit since XP. That's 6 major OS changes later and it's still shit. 24 years later since microsoft office became shit and ...... it's still shit

LibreOffice, is what Microsoft Office should be and they hate it. πŸ–• microsoft

[–] GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Ah yes because they fear losing the ability to charge annual and monthly subscriptions for their spyware. And no MSFT for the 30th time I don’t want to try Copilot just like I didn’t want to deal with that ho Cortana you pimped out before.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Not to mention that it feels like Microslop only makes Copilot vibecoded slopware.

My favorite was when I spent a few hours disabling all their shit and an update brought it all back.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Clippy, did they not learn their lesson in 95?

I to remember him.

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 98 points 4 days ago (4 children)

They're directly lobbying the government on a massive scale. They're looking for every opportunity to force their software on people buying any computer, like they always have. They're looking for every technical trick to screw the competition, and to extract more from their customers. Where it's possible (i.e. not LibreOffice) they're buying up any company that does threaten to successfully compete with them. They bought half the video game industry for example. They're buying their way into all the schools so kids grow up knowing nothing but the Microsoft life.

I mean what else would they do? It's Microsoft.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Excel is a wonderful piece of technology, the full capacity of which I don’t even come close to fully utilizing. I can appreciate that as a piece of art, but I can also get everything I need done in libreoffice calc and then I don’t have to support and rely on microsoft.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've worked at some banks quite a few years ago and Excel was basically a cheap application space for them. The cells were inputs/outputs, they used VBA, and COM+ which talked to SQL to perform calculations and all that. It was really weird but every iteration that they wrote to replace Excel (they needed to because of banking auditing regulations) had failed simply due to the features they would get from it. It was wild to see at the time.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I did some pretty amazing things with Excel and VBA in the day.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I made a whole CRM in Google sheets once, with appscript and an animated dancing badger Easter egg

[–] CaperGrrl79@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Or OnlyOffice, but there are problematic elements. Then again, what doesn't have that these days?

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Chromebooks are taking over Windows PCs in public schools these days. I was only taught how to use Windows PCs when I was a kid in school, though. 90s/00s.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. Not exactly an improvement, is it.

[–] BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago

Arguably worse. Google does all kinds of sneaky things. Kids end up learning software without file management skills (like at all). This makes it very difficult to leave their apps and if they do it’ll be to to 365, maybe iCloud, not libreoffice.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hit them with an anti-trust suit!

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hit them with an anti-trust suit!

Again

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 61 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"Oh no, we did our job so incredibly terribly that people are trying new things! And sticking with them! Quick, let's use our wealth to crush the competition!"

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Thats a perfectly valid and logical strategy for a business...

I'm more mad that our politicians fall for it and allow an anti-competitve environment, >:(

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh they didn't fall for it. They personally received perks, I'm convinced.

[–] j5y7@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago

In my country we call them bribes.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

That’s capitalism for you baby

[–] Canajan@piefed.ca 64 points 4 days ago (4 children)

As a matter of national security we need to move our digital services to Canadian platforms, or platforms other than Microsoft.

[–] Lectral@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

Canadian is good. Open-source would be better.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago

Microsoft made sure the definition of a "Canadian company" is based on the number of employees in Canada so they qualify for those contracts. No joke. I want to RFP something besides PowerBI and all the little open source shops don't qualify. Microsoft does.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yes, yes, and yes. Microslop has shown they will β€œaccidentally” leak stuff if you threaten to move so governments should move.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 days ago

As they realized in Europe, Microsoft will turn data over to the US govt if requested, so using it on sensitive systems should be seen as a bigger security threat than some video app.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Yup, doesn't matter where the data centres are - a contract is only as trustworthy as the person or company you signed it with. Throwing all your government and medical and everything else docs on somebody else's computer with a "trust me bro" privacy statement seems like a recipe for disaster.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 52 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is the part where you find out if your government officials even know what Linux and Libre are.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's like in that dinosaur movie, right? This is a linux system! Ha ha

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

It was Unix, but close enough. I doubt most government officials know the difference

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[–] Stampy@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hope our officials are taking notice what Europeans are doing.

[–] f1error@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Narrator: They didn't notice.

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 27 points 4 days ago

Yes Microslop keep showing me your despair, bleed it out as much as you can and show everyone that you are a parasite we don't need, dew it!

[–] numeral_paver555@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago

It's alarming what they are lobbying about. But is there an indication in the page specific to Linux or LibreOffice?

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 12 points 3 days ago

I used to love windows. Lots of good games played on it. AOL. Fun other little programs.

They've really taken the soul out of it over the last decade or so. Not sure if it's the CEO or upper management but I main Linux now and I doubt I'd go back even if they improved their base OS.

[–] Brownie@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago

One of them is just called Bigot?? Figures

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

While I don't doubt their lobbying includes anti-Linux themes, there was no specific info in OP's link. It looks like they are spamming every branch of government with corporate crap at all times.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

hilariously bonkers, especially considering MS has it's own Linux distro now.

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Is it? that's even more funny somehow. From linux is a cancer to fedora.... what a joke

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