Posted on 12/13/2023 5:55:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
Oh no... bud light is ok,now because they issued a NON apology, and joe rogan and other celebs are endorsing it again /s (spit on bud light!)
The difference is choice. The public can choose not to buy beer and entertainment, but MS can choose to shut down your OS and cloud accounts if you don’t play by their rules.
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Meaningful alternatives are lacking. That’s why Microsoft, Google, and U-Tube should be banned from political discrimination. Just as we would not allow the water and power monopolies to deny service for political reasons.
In what universe was that ever the case? See Tagline.
Isn’t MSN the source that is being pushed so hard here at FR by some posters?
Rather than posting the actual source they want freepers to pass through MSN to get to the articles.
When I found out that Microsoft was working with the CCP on AI I cancelled my account of M10.
Fixing MSN will be easier said than done. Not only do fewer conservatives go into journalism, resulting in a smaller supply of conservative articles for even the most balanced news site to choose from, but left wing users will click on leftist stories to validate their viewpoints while some right wing users will also click on leftist stories to get their daily dose of outrage. The reverse seems to happen less often. An algorithm that depends on user input can only be as good as that input. GIGO
You're better off using LibreOffice anyway.Lord only knows how much spying microsoft is doing through their apps.
Yeah. $money$ talks.
LibreOffice is useless for me. It has neither the math nor the graphing capability of MS office. Today I’m working on an excel spreadsheet with a half million rows and a dozen columns, and it’s a short one. I even uncovered a bug in Excel365 using it.
#17 I had that happen with Adobe Acrobat.
I ended up buying a one time purchase of Foxit PDF Editor 11 which is far easier to use.
I also bought Office 2021 Professional Plus for $35 last Dec. thru the PC World website.
You can search and find a newer copy like I did.
Get Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2021 for just $35 / Looks to be $49.99 now. Keep searching for Christmas deals.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1957287/get-microsoft-office-pro-plus-2021-for-just-40.html
I had to get newer versions of software like Firefox and other web browsers as they no longer will update in Windows 7 or earlier.
I also bought a one time purchase of CorelDRAW 2021 as my 2006 X3 version was old...
Software companies are trying the Adobe way of renting you software.
Rumor is that Microsoft Windows 12 will be subscription base.
I use RealOffice and I'm pleased. It is free; the only problem I've had was it crashes once in a while when I am too fast a do too mant things at once. But I've never lost anything - it backs up everything and recoups everything so I don't lose anything.
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