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The fundamental problem is that all of Office was designed for a different time, and irredeemably sucks at two things: * True version control and useful change
by zdw 5y ago
The fundamental problem is that all of Office was designed for a different time, and irredeemably sucks at two things:
* True version control and useful change tracking of content
* Intercompatability of formats with other tools
If we could get away from v2,v3,v4 suffixes on files, and your data basically going into those Roach Motels of file formats, maybe it could become worthwhile someday.
For now, it's just a vomitous throwback to the bad old 90's software design mechanics.
- azalemeth 5y agoThere is a lot of truth in this. The common argument for word is "track changes is good", but it actually sucks in many ways: try doing a three-way merge, for example (from co-authors A, B and C) or a diff. TeX can use all of the power of modern editors and this sort of thing just happens really nicely; with git it happens seamlessly. I think another big problem is that Word is one monolithic thing that aims to do everything, and in reality does nothing well.