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Look what Microsoft did with *.odt (OpenOffice/LibreOffice) compatibility. Now they show bogus security and compatibility warning dialogs if you open or save su
by frik 11y ago
Look what Microsoft did with *.odt (OpenOffice/LibreOffice) compatibility. Now they show bogus security and compatibility warning dialogs if you open or save such a file.
Look what they do with IMAP support in Outlook 2016. Pre-loading just the "Subject" (a feature supported since 1990s) got dropped, instead of the whole email incl attachments is downloaded.
And now we learn POP3 got crippled too. The common Microsoft tactics to lock-in end-user and enterprise customers to proprietary ever changing protocols only fully supported by their most recent server software - their Exchange and Outlook.com/Office365 cloud eco-system.
Microsoft wants you to upgrade to Windows 10 on PC, adopt it on smartphones (even it has just 1.1% market share), on servers, SQL-Server 2016, Exchange 2016, Office365 (subscription based Office 2016 client, cloud based SharePoint 2016 = OneDrive for Business on Azure), Skype for Business (=rebranded Lync), etc. Oh, and they ask you to install their telemetry services for Office on your clients, to get a "full picture". The telemetry and other phone home stuff cannot be turned off, except in the expensive LTSB license version. And several IPs and URLs are white lists in the kernel mode network layer, in all versions.
It's up to you, to help Microsoft to create another monopoly. Or you out smart them and say no.
- keithpeter 11y ago"Look what Microsoft did with .odt (OpenOffice/LibreOffice) compatibility. Now they show bogus security and compatibility warning dialogs if you open or save such a file."* To be fair, oOo and LO always warn you when you want to save a file in MS Office format. Mind you, you can turn the notification off. Food for thought: one of my employers now deploys OpenOffice as well as MS Office after years of resisting that because of fears of user confusion. Guess what? No confusion apparent.
- xvilka 11y agoOpenOffice is dead, sadly refusing to accept it, so people still continuing to install it - check the commits count for the 2015 year. While LibreOffice does a very good job improving (including Microsoft formats support).
- keithpeter 11y agoI tend to agree and I use LibreOffice myself. Employer is a Microsoft shop (win10/7 clients, SharePoint, outlook/exchange, active directory &c). I imagine someone just went to the oOo Web site and got the current download.
- narrator 11y agoThe funny thing about Microsoft is they use people's belief in Hanlon's razor as a competitive advantage.
- SixSigma 11y agoExcept it's almost certainly not up to me. Oh, you use Autodesk products, you'll need Windows for that. "We created a shared Word doc / PowerPoint in OneDrive for the report" - only editable with MS Office. My choice is work or no work.
- tdkl 11y ago> except in the expensive LTSB license version It's so sad, because LTSB is quite a good system. My home system was eligible for Windows 10 upgrade, which I did - then loaded LTSB as soon as I found out about it and replaced it, so my conscience is somehow clear about running it. It reminds me of good old Windows 7 days and updates aren't breaking the system weekly. You still have to disable various telemetry crap though.