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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.




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