Microsoft products haven't really changed in 20 years. What are you referring to? The fact that you can access them anywhere?

Can you clarify your usage of Office products?

I'm assuming that 100% of people saying "it's fine we have LibreOffice" or "it's fine we have Office 2014 installed locally" don't use it beyond basic PowerPoints and the occasional resume update on Word.

Just as an example, the world pretty much runs on Excel, and each version brings valuable additions.

Good guess! I use PowerPoint and word. I occasionally use excel for a quick spreadsheet but for data storage we have databases and for visualisation we have grafana. The only time I use the live edit feature of excel is when we are coordinating pizza orders.

We must live in completely different worlds if you can't imagine a reality without MS crap

How is it crippling Europe? The sooner we stop the US from raping us, the better

I genuinely don't understand why anyone would need MS products ever. I thought it was just hard lobbying that made it so our instituitions have to use that garbage.

And obviously your opinion is not at all biased by the fact that you are a software developer working on Linux.

This propensity of developers to reject the existence of everything that they cannot see through their own tiny lens is beyond laughable.

"reject the existence"? What are you on about? I had to use MS office all my life and it has always been a very poor user experience, I wished I wasn't forced to use it and now maybe people won't be.

> I had to use MS office all my life

Ah, so actually it wasn't true when you were saying "I genuinely don't understand why anyone would need MS products ever"?

Both are true, I was forced to use subpar solutions because MS paid a lot of money to become the default. I have no idea why anyone given the freedom to do so would choose MS products over alternatives.