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What will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Will they lobby for laws that prohibit Linux or make it difficult to install? What actions might they take in the future?

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Agreed

I think Windows is primarily a development environment for Xbox, just as macOS is primarily a development environment for iOS Everything else of value from Microsoft is available via the web/cloud (even Office)

Eventually, Microsoft might even decide that it's more profitable to abandon Windows completely

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    office 365 is a fraction of the true power of office. do not even try to compare the two.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I think you’re mixing up Office 365 and Office Online.

    Office 365 is a subscription for Microsoft Office that includes access to both the full, more powerful desktop Office applications and the much less powerful Office Online.

    Though I don’t think it’s even called Office 365 anymore, but I don’t respect MS enough to bother to Google what they’re calling it now.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    MS hasn't released an Office version outside 365 for 8 years.

    365 is Office for them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I agree

    But how many paying customers need features that are not in the online/cloud versions of Office?

    Sure this is a shrinking number of people?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    the same could be said about libreoffice, but the only reason I gave Microsoft money for office was for dealing with specifically the edge cases where a document won't work with other word processing programs. The browser based ms office is comparable to Google docs, usable 98% of the time.

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