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> LibreOffice is eating Microsoft 365 lunch

This one misses the point entirely, I'm sorry to say. Microsoft 365's "lunch" is that a majority of US businesses, schools, and governments are reliant on 365 for anything in their organization to function.


And also majority of European businesses and governments and schools. Europe is well integrated into US. Quite a few STOXX 600 have US wings or acquired US companies.

Basically a substantial (non-software) enginerring or financial work is done in Microsoft's proprietary formats, occasionaly involving VBA.

Many businesses cannot even pay salaries without macro-ridden Excel documents.

With 365 Microsoft has even stronger moat: cloud integrated co-editing using desktop apps. No browser will exceed C++/C# Office apps running directly on the PC. Not even proprietary apps have equivalent experience.

On top of that add all Azure, SharePoint etc. All big companies without exception use those and put significant portion of their business knowledge on Microsoft platforms.

US can literally kill Europe by just forcing Microsoft to shutdown its operations. It is fucking scary.


There are more effective ways of doing that. For example invalidate all european Visa and Mastercards. That would really kill most of Europe.

That one made me lol. This same conversation happened a little while ago.

Both powerpoint and excel are well ahead of the competition.



I thought so too at first, coming from a language (Hare) where they are very easy and common, but the Diagnostics pattern isn't that bad once you expect it. Various examples: https://ziggit.dev/search?q=Diagnostics

"tell"?

Ah! That's not bad but it's not the same thing. Good nevertheless.

I can 'show' (or point someone to a) a sight that I am not myself creating in anyway. The word I am looking for would mean to 'make you hear' in the same may to show is to make you see.

I showed him the distant tower.

I ??? him the faint sound.


As the sibling points out show works for audio as well. Also vision is directed while audio is not. You need to look at some thing specifically in order to see it, you do not need to turn your head, to listen, the sound needs just to be there. You might need to alter your perception filter for both.

You appear to be looking for the word show, which is not specific to visual phenomena.

I see (pun intended)

play?

I played him the faint sound.


Yes that will indeed work in a few cases.

When talking in terms of software parallelism, "parallel" and "sequential" are more common to describe, for example, multi-threaded vs. single-threaded implementations.

No, it is a protocol that allows a user to create their own social network within their Messaging app.


Next you will say that somehow iMessage isn't social media, but WhatsApp is.


Wait, how is that different from WhatsApp?


How is that different from Discord?


(2009)


It says the first half of the advance would be paid on approval of the first third of the book. It also says that the first third of the book was never submitted. So I don't think the advance was ever paid out.


QDirStat is a Linux equivalent: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat


The Pentagram at the top of the page does not load without JS enabled.


So it's.. fitting, how meta.


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