• Zoe@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    “The cost of running the hallucination machine is too expensive so instead of charging people who want to use it, we have instead decided to charge everyone who uses any of our services even if they don’t want to use the hallucination machine”

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    You can call the sales team and ask them to change your subscription to the classic version to opt-out of Copilot and get the old price back, if you still need the subscription over changing to other open source office suites.

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    Fuck the MS suite is such garbage. My work was sold in for Teams with all the BS. Now I have to either map up the filepath creating what we used to have, or I can’t see the file folder and make a call at the same time. Onenote with it’s arbitrary syncing. And good luck finding it again since it stored at some random place if you loose access.

    Word and excel is decent, but for a person who likes to tinker with versions it’s a nightmare to invite people to edit it.

    Cluncky interface, slow and bloated all around

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      The degree to which MS Teams can get fucked by the horse it rode in on is proportional to the number of registry entries their bloatware has on first install.

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    worlds most over glorified over priced office website that runs like a slug

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    The fact that people are subscribing to office software is the biggest problem here. What sort of technical breakthroughs require so many updates that a subscription is necessary?

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      It is. Remember when they just made a new version every 3 years and you didn’t REALLY need to buy the latest one if you had the previous one?

      Well that didn’t make them enough money.

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      As much as they are pushing to stop 1 time purchases of office, they do still offer it. I purchased a license for like $20 off a discount site for Office 2021, and i have no clue why people need a subscription plan for this. It would take some very specific needs for that to ever be needed and I’m sure a huge percentage would be just fine with the 1 time purchase that lasts 3-4 years of support.

      As for businesses that part stinks… once you get integrated with all the services offered, it’s going to take a lot to back out since it’s not just office they are probably subscribed to but everything else that enterprise has to offer. They are absolutely banking on people to suck it up and accept the position they are in and give in. It’s awful, but at the same time if your business went all in and didn’t anticipate this then they didn’t do their job if you ask me when vetting everything. This feels similar to the recent buyout of VMware and are now pushing insane new license costs. The problem is they went to high where despite the effort it will take to change products people have to. We can only hope Microsoft is on the edge of crossing that line.

    • Laser@feddit.org
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      If smart people love libreoffice, then I must be dumb. Working with it always seems weird and I never like it.

      Fortunately, I can use LaTeX for work; it is far from without issues but while being arcane sometimes (especially when tables are involved), it never really upsets me and the result looks very good. I can say neither for libreoffice or MS office. But at least the former doesn’t charge for the experience.

      I hope typst gains more traction; it seems really intuitive compared to TeX and you don’t necessarily need a macro package. And while it doesn’t produce the quality of TeX-based systems yet, it is already good. Then again, Knuth’s goal first and foremost goal was quality (and it shows); the system just had to be usable by him.

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      Libre Office.

      Honestly - and flame away - I hate the name. I hate saying it. It’s the ‘moist’ of borrowed words. Leeeeeeeebr. And I’m a Canadian who did French up to university-level conversational “explain something for 20 min” French (from a gorgeous caribbean dynamo teacher, but I justif–uh, digress) so I know how to say the word and what it means.

      And I still hate it. I’m a horrible person – even before I continued French study because the prof was so engaging and energetic and brightened every room and every day and made French interesting just on inclusion.

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        I feel bad for canadians learning french. It’s a language that’s only useful in like, 1.5 places in the world.

        I genuinely believe french canadians are hurting their next generation by filling their heads with nonsense of a dying culture. Kind of like how racists fill their kids’ heads with garbage because they’re afraid of becoming irrelevant.

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          We should all bow to the American overlords indeed. Coca cola and burgers are the peek of humanity

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            Wow… do french canadians really believe that learning french is a way to fight back against America?

            Just… wow. I knew they were delusional an insecure, but this really puts things into perspective for me.

            Glad we could have this conversation.

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              French Canadians, (Québécois), believe it’s a way to fight other Canadians. If it works against Americans? Well that’s just a bonus.

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          There are over three hundred thousand million people speaking it. On all continents. It’s fairly useful. Maybe you should travel more.

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            Over three hundred thousand million people? On all continents?

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                Looks like if I want to learn French, I’ll be able to speak it in:

                -France

                -A few place in Canada that also speak English

                -France’s colonies in Africa

                -A tiny country in South America most people can’t name by looking at this picture

                I rest my case. French canadians are pretentious about the significance of the french language. They don’t want to admit it’s a niche language and they want to waste people’s time learning it in schools because they had to waste their time learning it. They don’t want to admit it was and still is a waste of time and energy for those who are not predominantly interested in specifically French/French canadian culture.

                Source for picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_distribution_of_French_speakers

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    Wow Lotta folks gonna discover that LibreOffice is much better than MS Office. Not to mention, free.

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    I use ms office 2007 it runs perfectly in wine and still has the cool version of wordart

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      GOZER
      The choice is made. The Traveller has come.
      
      VENKMAN
      We didn't choose anything?!!  I didn't think of an image, did you?
      
      SPENGLER
      No.
      
      WINSTON
      My mind's a total void!
      
      [They all look at Ray]
      
      RAY
      I couldn't help it! It just popped in
      there!
      
      VENKMAN
      What? What just popped in there?
      
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          SPENGLER
          I have a radical idea... The door swings both ways. We could reverse the particle flow through the gate...
          
          RAY
          How? 
          
          SPENGLER
          ... we'll resize a table in Word 
          
          VENKMAN
          Excuse me, Egon.  You said resizing a table was bad...
          
          RAY
          [with realisation]
          ... resize the table...
          
          VENKMAN 
          You're going to endanger us.  You're going to endanger our client; the nice lady who paid us in advance before she turned into a dog
          
          SPENGLER 
          Not necessarily.  There's definitely a very slim chance we'll survive..
          
          WINSTON
          ...
          
          RAY
          ...
          
          VENKMAN
          I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it!  Let's do it! 
          
  • Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    They should have made it opt-in instead of opt-out IMHO. You can still get the old subscription when you renew, but you have to jump through a couple of hoops. If you do nothing you just get “upgraded” for no reason.

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      Excel is the deal breaker on that. My last company was all Google products and auth, but I still had to buy Excel for the accounting and HR teams.

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        Um excel certainly has its places, but accounting? Don’t they have actual dedicated software for accounting? HR? Like payroll? Again don’t they have actual software for that?

        And I was thinking personal use, whose costs were posted. $100 a year, fuck that.

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          It’s hard to believe, but I work at a Fortune 100 company that’s still heavily reliant on Excel.

          Sure, we have specific software as System of Record (Oracle suite, mainly). But for all the day to day estimating and calculating and reporting and other noodling, people routinely export to Excel and play with numbers from there.

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            The point is you can use google docs or Libreoffice for day to day mundane things.

            It’s only the huge power features that you need Excel for, maybe in engineering. For accounting when you get to that power feature point I’m surprised there isn’t dedicated software.

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              Excel is a spreadsheet, and spreadsheets like Excel are first and foremost aimed at accounting sort of tasks. Whether they actually need Excel versus something like Google Docs or Libreoffice is another thing. The big thing with Excel is that it gets used (and abused) to do things that it’s not really intended for doing such as those spreadsheets that are full of macros trying to be an application, or those spreadsheets that are trying to be a database, and so forth.

              From an engineering perspective, I find Excel to be annoying because it’s clearly first and foremost an accounting tool, and some of its behaviors like the way it rounds numbers and tries to turn everything into a date is downright obnoxious. I still use it from time to time for quick and dirty things like whipping up a couple of plots quickly (and this doesn’t really need Excel… but at work all the computers have Excel), but otherwise for anything more complicated I’d probably switch to something else.

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                Like it’s a fun number cruncher, but for serious accounting that’s tied into point of sale, accounts receivable, accounts payable, etc you really should be running something dedicated. That’s why there are all these software companies making bank when from the outside you can’t quite figure out what they do.

                Protip on excel, when you start a new sheet ctrl+a, ctrl+1, change to number.

    • john89@lemmy.caBanned
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      The fact it costs anything at all, let alone a subscription, should be enough for the working class to seek other options.

      This generation has sold itself out to the lowest bidder.

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        Last week at us.

        First question I asked the evil twin was: “How can I deactivate Gemini and never hear from it again?” Support article poped up, where must opt out from some Labs setting or some bs, but only a workspace admin can do it.

        Ended up with blocking that flare button with uBo. Problem solved.

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    Fun story, it’s called office 365 as when you see the price you’ll turn 365 degrees and walk away.

    Ok that doesn’t really work but God I love that stupid joke.

    Anyway I haven’t used office personally for ages and never seem to run into real compatibility issues with the meager personal/business overlap in my situation.

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      It made me chuckle a little imaging that you do a full 365 degree spin Infront of Microsoft and then walk away (in an awkward way), instead of 180 degrees to walk the opposite direction haha

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        At the right distance it’s just enough pivot to give them a spiteful shoulder check on the way out.

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        Technically speaking with 365* of rotation if you are far enough away you will be able to walk past microsoft, so this is possible.

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            No not the curvature. For every one degree off you are of a target at 60 miles away you will miss your target by one mile. So if you were 60 miles from your target and you rotated 365, you would miss it by 5 miles. Hence you could spin 365 and miss it, if you were far enough away.

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              You mean you could accidentally spin 364.9° or 365.1° instead of 365° exactly and you’d be off by a large amount? Might be dumb but still not getting how a perfect pivot right back to 0°/365° would still miss!

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    There are home users of Microsoft 365?

    I’m not shaming but I kinda am. Like WTF is wrong with you? You pay for free shit.

    Office employees don’t get to choose.

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      Actually I have admin access to my work laptop, so while my employer pays for what ever the fuck they pay for I frequently use FOSS instead.

      I do it to make a point.