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It's easier to share and collaborate on wysiwyg documents (I mean across a wide range of skillsets and interests, not in a technical sense), and Word has / had
by version_five 5y ago
It's easier to share and collaborate on wysiwyg documents (I mean across a wide range of skillsets and interests, not in a technical sense), and Word has / had a critical mass. Google docs is definitely mainstream now as well.
- lvass 5y agoSharing office files is such a pain though. Let alone support for different formats, there's always inconsistencies between editors and versions. Issues were so common sometimes I'd create bad files to pretend I'd done my schoolwork, and no one suspected anything. OOXML presumably tried to fix this but it's so huge and difficult to implement.
- tconfrey 5y agoI think the reason Google Docs has been able to challenge the MS Office hegemony is that they solved the sharing problem by putting the doc online and the ui in the browser.