Re: """Standard""" software (was: Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon)

On 2026-06-26 19:23:53 +0000, John Ames said:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:03:12 GMT
> Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is this the same "business world" that has largely moved its
>>> operations into the cloud these days? The cloud that is dominated
>>> by Linux?
>> 
>> Shhhhh... don't say that too loudly.  Bill might not like it.
> 
> Are you kidding? M$ makes *bank* on Office 365, whether it's running as 
> a bloated Web app or a bloated native executable. *Herds* of CEOs who 
> validate themselves by cutting checks for stuff they'll never have to 
> use have been inflicting this on their workers for like a decade now.

Microsloth Windoze and Orifice have unfortunately been basically 
business standards for multiple decades now. Word was first released in 
1983 and "Office" (with Excel, etc.) in 1989.

Even if people don't use Orifice themselves, almost every document you 
come across (other than PDFs) is in .doc format because that gives the 
widest potential compatibility ... as long as it's a simple document. 
If it's a complex document, then compatibility tends to go out the 
window. (For example, TextEdit and QuickLook on the Mac can read and 
write .doc / .docx format files, but even mildly complicated formatting 
will end up looking a mess, especially in QuickLook.)



> Satya could probably not give less of a shit whether he's getting paid 
> $xxx/mo. a head for that on Chromium/Linux or Edge/Win11.