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Microsoft is the best at ensuring your accounts are safe. So safe that I lost my Skype account to some random French hacker in 2014 and still can't get it back
by hanselot 4y ago
Microsoft is the best at ensuring your accounts are safe. So safe that I lost my Skype account to some random French hacker in 2014 and still can't get it back even though it was created with my email address.
Luckily I've found no reason to pay Microsoft for anything in nearly 2 decades.
- grepfru_it 4y agoHow do you use office? The office productivity suite competition only picked up in the last 6-7 years I once did a contract gig with red hat, they asked for a document. I provided an odt file they came back and said they needed a word doc. I saved the doc as a word doc in libreoffice but it completely butchered their template. I was using fedora. That made me realize Microsoft won the office suite wars. It wasn’t until 2016ish when I noticed google docs was Good Enough(tm)
- eindiran 4y agoNot OP, but this wasn't my experience at all. Pretty effortlessly switched away from Microsoft Office even before Libreoffice overtook OpenOffice (not sure of the year I switched, but I'd wager 2008 or so?). And the Google suite was an excellent supplement when OO/LO was fucking something up.
- hanselot 4y agoTo be honest I've been using portable document format for anything that needs to look the same across platforms.
- atlantic 4y agoI have an old license for Office 2007. It works fine, even on Windows 11. It has all the features I need. I've never had cause to replace it with a more recent version.
- hutzlibu 4y agoSome who are lucky, don't have to use office at all. And some others probably pirate it.