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A quick search turns up Office 2021[0], and I see no indication that offline Office is being discontinued. And claiming that O365 is a toy? Literally the only

A quick search turns up Office 2021[0], and I see no indication that offline Office is being discontinued. And claiming that O365 is a toy? Literally the only other online office suite I've used or heard of is GDocs, which has a fraction of the functionality that I use from O365. Your post doesn't sound serious at all to me. [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-professional-2021/cfq7ttc0hhj9?activetab=pivot:overviewtab https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-profe...

gonehome 4y ago
It was clear to me when they mentioned Emacs that their opinion on this can just be ignored. That isn't to say Emacs isn't a great thing for a certain niche, but it's just not something that matters in this kind of strategic product discussion (and thinking it's comparable is just a signal it's not worth engaging imo). There are many reasons why VSCode is dominant and emacs isn't, similarly there are many reasons slack failed to compete (even after taking out a full page ad pretending to be apple before suing Microsoft). If you're going to pretend to be apple, you better be as good. If you're going to mock competition you better hope you're apple and not netscape [0][1]. I too think Slack is a great product, but that's not enough. Slack needed to expand into a more competitive offering and they failed to do that. [0]: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/browser-wars/ https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/browser-wars/ [1]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/slack-microsoft-open-letter_n_581a0e66e4b01f610e396815 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/slack-microsoft-open-letter_n...
zelphirkalt 4y ago
GDocs is a toy as well. Maybe worse than O365. If you only know those two, then I can understand your opinion. Try using offline office suites, best not MS Office, and use their writing tool. So many things are missing in these online office suites. I assure you the post is serious and I have used multiple online and offline office suites. Perhaps you should explore more and make use of styles and all that. You will quickly notice how many things are missing in the online office suites.

gonehome 4y ago

It was clear to me when they mentioned Emacs that their opinion on this can just be ignored. That isn't to say Emacs isn't a great thing for a certain niche, but it's just not something that matters in this kind of strategic product discussion (and thinking it's comparable is just a signal it's not worth engaging imo). There are many reasons why VSCode is dominant and emacs isn't, similarly there are many reasons slack failed to compete (even after taking out a full page ad pretending to be apple before suing Microsoft). If you're going to pretend to be apple, you better be as good. If you're going to mock competition you better hope you're apple and not netscape [0][1]. I too think Slack is a great product, but that's not enough. Slack needed to expand into a more competitive offering and they failed to do that. [0]: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/browser-wars/ https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/browser-wars/ [1]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/slack-microsoft-open-letter_n_581a0e66e4b01f610e396815 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/slack-microsoft-open-letter_n...

zelphirkalt 4y ago

GDocs is a toy as well. Maybe worse than O365. If you only know those two, then I can understand your opinion. Try using offline office suites, best not MS Office, and use their writing tool. So many things are missing in these online office suites. I assure you the post is serious and I have used multiple online and offline office suites. Perhaps you should explore more and make use of styles and all that. You will quickly notice how many things are missing in the online office suites.