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When they reach that unusability limit, most people will call their IT department and have the offending buggy software reinstalled as a fix. IT won’t remove yo
by ndespres 3y ago
When they reach that unusability limit, most people will call their IT department and have the offending buggy software reinstalled as a fix. IT won’t remove your buggy copy of Microsoft Word and Teams and replace it with WordPerfect and Slack.
- i2cmaster 3y agoI should have said "people and organizations" because that's what I meant. The mechanism with organizations works like you said yes. They'll just develop processes to work around the bugs until it becomes completely impossible.
- quickthrower2 3y agoBut Word has competitors like GSuite so it cannot be completely complacent. People are making these buying decisions constantly.
- trelane 3y agoIt's had competitors forever. The lockin is from UI, file formats, compatibility generally (e.g. functions), scripting / existing infra around it, and its utter dominance in the market ("nobody got fired for buying Microsoft")