> I don't think it was true then or now. It was true back then and remains true to this day even with smartdevices taking over and slowly pushing desktops out

> I don't think it was true then or now. It was true back then and remains true to this day even with smartdevices taking over and slowly pushing desktops out of the educaton sector. Anybody who grew up since the 80s and had some kind of "IT related" education in school, most likely got said education on MS systems with MS software. In Germany having "MS office knowledge" is considered the absolute basic for any office/admin job no matter how unqualified. People expect you to know your way around Word, Excel and Powerpoint because that's the software that's taught in schools and forced occupational trainings even at the lowest levels. At the higher levels you often gonna need a long list MS training certifications to even be considered taken seriously. It's particularly the entrenchment in the education sector that makes it near impossible to change anything about this. People are getting "primed" on MS in school like children are getting primed into religions by their parents; There is pretty much no choice involved for them.