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"Trivial personal users moved to free alternatives ages ago" Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.
by alvah 2y ago
"Trivial personal users moved to free alternatives ages ago"
Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.
- petepete 2y agoNot really. All the non tech folks I know just the free version of Google office suite for the handful of letters and spreadsheets they create a year.
- raincole 2y agoIt absolutely happened. But people didn't move to open source solutions. They moved to Google docs.
- Spivak 2y agoAt university the school gave away Office for free to all students and we still all used Google Docs. Google ate Word's lunch by making the 99.99% experience waaay better.
- worik 2y ago> Google ate Word's lunch by making the 99.99% experience waaay better. That is fascinating to me I have never used MS 365, but due to work have extensively used Google docs It is awful. I am continually amazed at how awful it is Astoundingly the most awful part is searching my docs. Compared to a directory tree of MD docs, it is simply dreadful. Oh Google, how the mighty have fallen! MS 365 is worse than that?
- rchaud 2y agoChromebooks have been heavily embedded in US schools since 2014 or so. That's probably had an impact on students preferring Google Docs.
- nickelpro 2y agoEveryone uses Google Docs, everyone, even people who don't use Google Docs have some interaction with Google Docs. You use Google docs.
- alvah 2y agoI use Google Docs and Office, and I guarantee outside whichever bubble you and the OP live in, millions of "trivial personal users" around the world also use Office, therefore didn't "move to free alternatives".