[dayglored]

This is part 1 of 2. Second half of the year in the next thread...

[dayglored]

Microsoft 2018, part 1 ... PING!

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[BobL]

Since I don’t have 24/7 access to the web every second, I let Microsoft KEEP IT with their cloud crap. I use OpenOffice, which is free and non-cloud, and uses much less memory than the non-cloud Office.

Hopefully this ‘cloud’ experiment runs its course, but I doubt it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Airbus also slipped through Microsoft's fingers in 2018 and shifted 130,000 employees off the venerable Office suite in favour of Google's G suite.

I’m no fan of Microsoft, but this seems like a bizarre decision for a major corporation to make. There are just too many features in Office documents - especially Excel spreadsheets - that just don’t quite work right using alternative software. I guess it’s OK for the simpler documents which would make up 95% of the workload, but the idea of trusting an entire giant corporation’s communications to an entity like Google ought to give most CIOs a nervous breakdown.