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> Remember for Google and Zoho, cloud based document editors was their target, right from idea to finished product. For Microsoft, it was an afterthought. And i
by hyperrail 6y ago
> Remember for Google and Zoho, cloud based document editors was their target, right from idea to finished product. For Microsoft, it was an afterthought. And it shows.
WAS an afterthought, 5-7 years ago. Now we at Microsoft often find that the desktop version is the afterthought; see my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24400026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24400026 ) for an example.
- woofie11 6y agoIs an afterthought in underlying platform design. Typing isn't synced anywhere close to real-time, for example, and glitches abound. It's tough to retroglue this stuff in!
- happymellon 6y agoCan you edit styles in Office online yet? Microsoft pushed styles hard for so long, it still takes up a massive chunk of the ribbon menu by default, yet the online version doesn't appear to let me create or update them. This is a fairly fundamental feature of Word. Add text, apply style. It can't do one of those.