We dumped Office a few years ago, and have been using LibreOffice since. When we send documents out to our clients, we send them as ODTs and ODSes. All our internals are ODTs and ODSes too.

In over 5 years, it has never been a problem. Office reads these files, and will happily save back to them.

Better yet, removing Office from our ecosystem has dramatically reduced costs both in Infrastructure and in ongoing maintenance.

If only we could remove Microsoft's aborted HTML variant monstrosity from emails sent by Outlook, my life would be fulfilled.

I terminated my TF subscription for the same reason. I may lean to the left, but Fark is a far left authoritarian echo chamber, and it manifests the most toxic characteristics of that political leaning. Its almost funny, as they've done more harm to the left than they'll ever really understand. Perhaps its demise will actually be good for the world.

I tell all my customers... McAfee _is_ the virus.

If we let the less cautious actors catch up...

Hahahahahahaha.... [breathes]... hahahahahahahaha

+1

Did it, done it, doing it tomorrow.

Abolishing Micro$oft Office from our list of supported products is one of the best moves we've ever made.

Yo dawg... I heard you like stories.

Soon Meta will release a new LLM for mouse movements that will only be able to jiggle the mouse for hours on end.

NTTAWWT

Google invented Macros. How quaint.

So, someone's moved on to anger. I mostly see denial and bargaining. The anger is there, but normal people have some checks and balances on anger-driven behaviours. Apparently, this person did not. I was surprised to read that the crowd was cheering on the attacker. For most of the western world, threatening murder is a crime. I guess the rule of law really has become optional in the USA.

I think VPNs are a little like black market trade routes. To criminals, they're handy. To governments, they're evil. To aid organisations, they're an essential way to support oppressed civilians. Anyone who thinks that they're necessary for internet security shouldn't be allowed near keyboards.

Blocking them (or regulating them, which I think is more likely) will drive them underground - which is really where they belong anyway.

I get mine to call me Moles FTW

The best devs move on of their own accord.

Its the less desirable employees who have to be moved on.

Anyone who works for a game company needs an attitude adjustment if they think they're going to be there for more than one project.

I've already blacklisted Sony games on PC. They're all the same. They're the same as they were 20 years ago except that now, they have better eye candy. But the gameplay is almost identical. Its very droll. There's plenty of new and refreshing indie games on GOG and even some on Steam.

At some point (many moons ago), there was a senior architect at M$ who envisioned a blank slate interface with totally customisable menu options and button bars in ribbons that could be context sensitive. It was visionary.

Unfortunately, the implementation was not. The implementation of the function points in VBA was a mess, and the context sensitivity of the ribbon (which should have been strongly event driven) was botched.

And now, 40 years into the game, Microsoft still can't make a settings/configuration page/form for a damn.

It could have been beautiful. Instead, its horrible.

We switched to LibreOffice years ago, and have never looked back. Every further iteration of M$ Office, 365 and their Onedrive abomination confirms that it was the right choice.

Just testing