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Because they run Word Excel and Outlook.

• loloquwowndueo 1y ago
  Can’t you run that on a browser these days?
  • nottorp 1y ago
    Not the good ones everyone is used to :)
  • kayodelycaon 1y ago
    Have you tried to use office on the web? The answer is no, not unless an absolutely crippled version is sufficient for your needs.
    • loloquwowndueo 1y ago
      Of course not - luckily I haven’t used Microsoft office in decades. Which is why I was asking what the capabilities are “these days”.
• tonyedgecombe 1y ago
  >Outlook Even more reason to switch.
  • anonymars 1y ago
    To?
  • tiahura 1y ago
    It's 2025 and there is still no open source equivalent with an integrated datastore for contacts, events, emails, and tasks. The last time I checked, Thunerbird can't flag a contact for reminder, or set the same category for an email and a task?
• zdw 1y ago
  This is the real reason. Put your data in the MS format roach motel, and it's a challenge to ever get it out with full fidelity. The mid-oughts battle over this in the international standardizations space is pretty fraught: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open... And even now, even though there is a "standard" and schemas for, MS's apps mostly ignore them, or use undocumented extensions (as far as I'm aware), so it the whole thing was truly straight from MS's embrace/extend/extinguish playbook.
  • tiahura 1y ago
    "get it out with full fidelity" Primarily because there isn't a fully-functional equivalent.
    • zdw 1y ago
      It's almost like it was intentionally designed that way...
      • tiahura 1y ago
        Like being able to use the same category for email and events?