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For me it’s the bugs in Microsoft Office that make me want to avoid it at all costs. Microsoft Office isn’t some side project tossed together last weekend, it
by makecheck 9y ago
For me it’s the bugs in Microsoft Office that make me want to avoid it at all costs.
Microsoft Office isn’t some side project tossed together last weekend, it is a decades-old product from a company with billions of dollars and thousands of engineers. Therefore, it should be able to create new items in a bulleted list without completely destroying indentation, it should be able to handle pasted text without utterly confusing the style of everything else, and it should not completely fail to save customization of the Ribbon (to name just a few things still true in 2017).
If a product costing hundreds of dollars is going to misbehave like someone’s open-source side project, then I would rather invest in the open-source side project (at least that might get fixed).
- curiousgal 9y agoI remember coming across a comment from someone who worked on Word in the past. Most of the engineers don't know how it works and are scared of breaking backward compatibility.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoI wonder how much of that is due to Microsoft making their file format opaque to enable vendor lock-in?
- WalterGR 9y agoOpaque in what way?
- ethelward 9y agoIn the “some old versions are practically a memory dump” way. Interesting links in the SO thread below. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/124869/how-does-the-doc-format-work https://stackoverflow.com/questions/124869/how-does-the-doc-...
- WalterGR 9y agoAh, I recall that now. The complexity is explained, and it's not due to an attempt by Microsoft to encourage vendor lock-in. I'm curious of the commenter I replied to above has evidence to the contrary.
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- izacus 9y agoThat engineer doesn't work on Word (he worked on WordPerfect) so not knowing how a proprietary format of another company works isn't really surprising :)