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Barf
And not the good version from Spaceballs.
“Not in here, this is a Mercedes!”
Too funny. My last boss hated how much I bitched and complained about Microslop. Now I’m certain he’s bitching. Glad I dumped M$, what a shit company with shit products.
So all of the Microsoft 365 users become instantly AI users? Microsoft gonna report after months that AI users surged the first months of 2026, stocks gonna go up, shareholders happy.
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Welp… Time to bring back this ol’ meme.
Yeah but only Sega has Mega power and blast processing.
Gameboy
Gameboy Pocket
Gameboy Light
Super Gameboy
Gameboy Colour
Gameboy Advance
Gameboy Advance SP
Gameboy Advance SP Backlit
Gameboy Player
Gameboy Micro
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Slurs, the DS works.
I can make LibreOffice Writer look like word 2007 🤗
I actually prefer the ribbon layout. But I actually only really started using Word when this was the interface
How can one learn such power?
You’ll thank me later ;)
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-GB/text/shared/01/notebook_bar.html
No. I shall thank you now.
In order to see the “View - User Interface”, I had to go to View -> View -> select Menubar
Side note: for capturing screenshots I can recommend Spectacle, works at least as good as snipping tool in Windows and with the same shortcut as snipping tool.
Hey thanks! I will remember this once my current version becomes unusable and I’m finally forced to switch to Linux lol
btw spectacle is the default in kde
I still have office '97 visio. Corporate license.
They can’t remove my physical media and they can’t force updates
Slop.
The sad part is that i still tried to first rationalize this and was about to check if office.com really belongs to microsoft…
Anyway, i jumped ship for good last year. Its probably really time to delete that windows 10 partition i used a whole 2 hours the last 6 months.
“Let’s take the most recognizable software package name and make it something totally divorced from what the software is supposed to be for.”
There are probably people for whom Microsoft Office is the only desktop software that they use. There are probably many people in procurement that are going to scratch their heads and think twice about signing off on something that sounds like a flight simulator.
This is an opportunity for alternate office suites.
For business, they’re locked into Excel, there is no substitute. I can see MS blowing out the remaining home users though.
I don’t know many people that still call it “Microsoft Office”… They usually refer to the individual apps they use (Word, Excel) rather than the suite as a whole.
Some people just call it “Microsoft” (“please install Microsoft on my computer”), especially if they’re on MacOS where it’s the only Microsoft software they use.
Some people assume it’s part of Windows since they’ve only ever used computers that have had it preinstalled.
It’s like they’re trying to alienate their core customer base. Windows 8 may have been salvageable but Office is not.
Its is almost universally the main reason that even a lot of Linux daily-drivers still have a windows install available to them. They fuck up Office enough and there isn’t a reason to even have Windows for most users.
That’s why they want you to put all your stuff in their dumb cloud, because its the only reason people would keep using this garbage, because they can hold your work ransom in their shitty ecosystem.
That is the whole business model of tech now. Stealing your shit and selling it back to you. That is it.
Who the fuck is dual booting for Office? You just made that up.
Literally everyone I know that runs a Linux desktop and also has a job.
They don’t just use office from the web, via Linux? You can access excel, word, …, all of that in a browser.
I would not shut down my PC and boot into windows just for office. I keep my Windows around because my wife prefers it (for now).
office on the web sucks, lacks features, and basically defeats the purpose of using office at all
I’m not one of the dual booters mentioned, but the desktop version of Excel specifically has several important features that the online version flat out doesn’t support. Primarily I’m talking about creating and running data queries, which is useful for analyzing data and generating reports from remote data sources including external files like CSV and online databases. You can do all this without Excel of course, but this shows the online versions are definitely limited.
That’s fair. I’ve dealt with that before, and in my case I had to rebuild the damn thing for compatibility with the web version. When I did, I was able to use alternatives like Power Query M instead of VBA. This worked in my case, but I’m sure you’re right that some features just aren’t there in any capacity.
The external CSV thing is a PITA but you can (at least there) overcome it via adding a “landing sheet” for raw data. Nobody is going to want to deal with any of this, though.
'Twas ever so. Years ago (2012) when i was still working in an office we had web MS office to use for work…i ended up bringing in my laptop with full blown office just to get the fckn data manipulation we needed out of excel
Yeah I think I’d be more likely to use WinBoat or something similar to run a virtual machine rather than fully boot into Windows.
They don’t just use office from the web, via Linux? You can access excel, word, …, all of that in a browser.
Web office has barely any features compared to the desktop thing, iirc.
+1
Do what I did: vm your win machine inside linux. It’s how i solved my legacy software / game saves quandry. Just duplicated the win HDD and virtualised it.
I dislike dual booting and will go a looong way to be lazy :P
Well, IIRC there’s a flight simulator hidden somewhere in Excel
Edit: https://www.exceldemy.com/7-excel-easter-eggs-for-power-users/
Unfortunately they no longer include elaborate Easter eggs like that, since they adopted a security policy around 20 years ago that forbids them. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman/why-no-easter-eggs
Ah! Bummer :(
I haven’t used Excel in ages, tho
Damn, guess Libre Office is the only office app now
lol OnlyOffice is also an office app, so LibreOffice is not the only office.
And better for most things IMO
So, what’s onlyoffice and why should I switch from libreoffice?
I’m happy with
openofficelibreoffice, but I also haven’t needed to open a word doc in years so I can’t speak for the current state of inter compatibility.edit, brain went back in time 15 years
Surely you didn’t actually mean “openoffice”…?
whoops, meant libreoffice
@glitchdx hmm. I’ll have to look into it. Most of the companies I work with are locked into office so I may be stuck with it but it’d be lovely to get rid.
A factor for me is that it doesn’t feel like a Java app carrying around 30 years of baggage with it.
But there’s other things too
If you think LibreOffice is good, then you don’t need to switch. If you have problems with the lack of familiarity of MS Office, then you might wanna check it. Though Collabora recently made a better replica UI, which is technically LibreOffice in a suit.
Personally, I’m happy with libreoffice and just don’t know about onlyoffice. I’m mostly asking for the benefit of others who might read this thread, but if onlyoffice is good then I might check it out anyway.
It jus clicked for me why they call it copilot. Hated it since it was announced and even more now. Everybody should be flying solo
They really have a massive talent. It’s not easy to have such a consistent record in choosing stupid and confusing names, rebranding stuff with no reason.
Wow, it’s not a joke
Damn, our customers don’t use copilot, but we promised to reach 50% usage in 2026…
That’s it… Rename the whole thing to copilot and we achieve our goal!
Microslop Crashpilot
