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Why the heck is Office so incompatible with everything??? They have their own proprietary standards for Word, Powerpoint and Excel and then implement them WRONG. WTF?

And don't get me started on Outlook: MSG files are the worst horsecrap ever, why can't you use EML like a normal mail application? Not to mention the complete incompatibility with CSS in mails. Nooooo you have to design everything with tables and images like we are still in the 90s. WHAT YEAR IS IT? Everytime i have to work with this boolshit i can feel sweaty Steve Ballmer scream "DEVELOPERS!!!" right in my fuckin' face.

The real cherry on top is their permanent advertisement being shoved up your ass. The stuff is all over the place! When you register a new mail account via IMAP they open Edge and prompt you to give them your phone number so they can send you a download link to their stupid Outlook app. I could understand that if the Office suite would be free... but it isn't! I effectively pay a shitton of money to see ads.

Why is everyone still using these applications?

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  • 3
    3y
    People use them because change is hard and it is a household name. It continues to be a household name because businesses aren’t willing to be the company that can’t open .docx files. So buyers continue to get the bundle of MS business applications.
  • 4
    3y
    Embrace - use an open tech

    Extend - add non standard features

    Extinguish - use market share to push out open tech

    That is the MS way.

    Why people use it? Critical mass. Sheep. Managers. Conspiracy. Because LibreOffice still sucks. Because word perfect still sucks. Does Corel still suck?
  • 2
    3y
    You know docx/xlsx/... are called "Office Open XML" files, right? The standard itself is open - but so complicated even Microsoft Office did not implement it fully for years.
    It was rumoured this "open but nobody wants/can implement" was only to not have to fully implement the Open Document standard, but to avoid antitrust actions at the same time...
  • 2
    3y
    @sbiewald From what I hear they just dumped the binary format (which was a mess) to xml and called it good.
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