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finally, this is really great news for anyone european, I hope it won't take long to determine there are a whole lot of other MS products that should also be il

finally, this is really great news for anyone european, I hope it won't take long to determine there are a whole lot of other MS products that should also be illegal

iLoveOncall 4y ago
How is that great news? The competition is literally decades behind. This is crippling Europe.
- forgotusername6 4y ago
  Microsoft products haven't really changed in 20 years. What are you referring to? The fact that you can access them anywhere?
  - iLoveOncall 4y ago
    Can you clarify your usage of Office products? I'm assuming that 100% of people saying "it's fine we have LibreOffice" or "it's fine we have Office 2014 installed locally" don't use it beyond basic PowerPoints and the occasional resume update on Word. Just as an example, the world pretty much runs on Excel, and each version brings valuable additions.
    - beebeepka 4y ago
      We must live in completely different worlds if you can't imagine a reality without MS crap
    - forgotusername6 4y ago
      Good guess! I use PowerPoint and word. I occasionally use excel for a quick spreadsheet but for data storage we have databases and for visualisation we have grafana. The only time I use the live edit feature of excel is when we are coordinating pizza orders.
- beebeepka 4y ago
  How is it crippling Europe? The sooner we stop the US from raping us, the better
- nathias 4y ago
  I genuinely don't understand why anyone would need MS products ever. I thought it was just hard lobbying that made it so our instituitions have to use that garbage.
  - iLoveOncall 4y ago
    And obviously your opinion is not at all biased by the fact that you are a software developer working on Linux. This propensity of developers to reject the existence of everything that they cannot see through their own tiny lens is beyond laughable.
    - nathias 4y ago
      "reject the existence"? What are you on about? I had to use MS office all my life and it has always been a very poor user experience, I wished I wasn't forced to use it and now maybe people won't be.
      - iLoveOncall 4y ago
        > I had to use MS office all my life Ah, so actually it wasn't true when you were saying "I genuinely don't understand why anyone would need MS products ever"?
        nathias 4y ago
        Both are true, I was forced to use subpar solutions because MS paid a lot of money to become the default. I have no idea why anyone given the freedom to do so would choose MS products over alternatives.

finally, this is really great news for anyone european, I hope it won't take long to determine there are a whole lot of other MS products that should also be illegal

iLoveOncall 4y ago

How is that great news? The competition is literally decades behind. This is crippling Europe.

forgotusername6 4y ago
Microsoft products haven't really changed in 20 years. What are you referring to? The fact that you can access them anywhere?
- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  Can you clarify your usage of Office products? I'm assuming that 100% of people saying "it's fine we have LibreOffice" or "it's fine we have Office 2014 installed locally" don't use it beyond basic PowerPoints and the occasional resume update on Word. Just as an example, the world pretty much runs on Excel, and each version brings valuable additions.
  - beebeepka 4y ago
    We must live in completely different worlds if you can't imagine a reality without MS crap
  - forgotusername6 4y ago
    Good guess! I use PowerPoint and word. I occasionally use excel for a quick spreadsheet but for data storage we have databases and for visualisation we have grafana. The only time I use the live edit feature of excel is when we are coordinating pizza orders.
beebeepka 4y ago
How is it crippling Europe? The sooner we stop the US from raping us, the better
nathias 4y ago
I genuinely don't understand why anyone would need MS products ever. I thought it was just hard lobbying that made it so our instituitions have to use that garbage.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  And obviously your opinion is not at all biased by the fact that you are a software developer working on Linux. This propensity of developers to reject the existence of everything that they cannot see through their own tiny lens is beyond laughable.
  - nathias 4y ago
    "reject the existence"? What are you on about? I had to use MS office all my life and it has always been a very poor user experience, I wished I wasn't forced to use it and now maybe people won't be.
    - iLoveOncall 4y ago
      > I had to use MS office all my life Ah, so actually it wasn't true when you were saying "I genuinely don't understand why anyone would need MS products ever"?
      - nathias 4y ago
        Both are true, I was forced to use subpar solutions because MS paid a lot of money to become the default. I have no idea why anyone given the freedom to do so would choose MS products over alternatives.