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We pay for office365 basically because Excel has no serious alternatives. Founders use Powerpoint. And that's about it. Also, Microsoft have gotten stupid an
by x0x0 9y ago
We pay for office365 basically because Excel has no serious alternatives. Founders use Powerpoint. And that's about it.
Also, Microsoft have gotten stupid and lazy with Office. Each app eats 2 gig disk, all from non-shared Resources/Fonts/crap. Users who just clicked default install ended up with 9g of disk space gone. Why is this a big deal? Apple's extortionate pricing on mbp disks and the inability to upgrade them for less than the price of an entire new computer. There's a hacky way to fix this.
https://aaronweb.net/blog/2016/01/office-2016-mac-decrease-disk-use/ https://aaronweb.net/blog/2016/01/office-2016-mac-decrease-d...
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