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Wow this is dumb. The reason I’m on Windows is because of Office. For my needs Office on Windows is the best—otherwise I’d be on a Mac or Linux. I use AI every
by barney54 9mo ago
Wow this is dumb. The reason I’m on Windows is because of Office. For my needs Office on Windows is the best—otherwise I’d be on a Mac or Linux. I use AI everyday and never found a use case for Copilot. So why rebrand Office, their best product after Copilot, their worst product?
- b112 9mo agoDidn't they put Office in the cloud? If so, why is Windows needed? You could run anything plus Office.
- Maken 9mo agoThe web version is a complete reimplementation with about as many backward compatibility problems as LibreOffice.
- 1718627440 9mo agoActually LibreOffice has better backward compatibility than MS Office now. If you have a MS Office 2003 file that current MS Office can't open, try LibreOffice.
- rhabarba 9mo agoLibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.
- IAmBroom 9mo ago"I don't like X, so I'm guessing Y is bad."
- 1718627440 9mo agoDoubt what you like, but I "rescued" old MS Office documents for my grandfather with that. Also this is a common fear when leaving MS Office, so you can bet they work on that. I never had someone complain over OO-compatibitlity until now, so there is that.
- rhabarba 9mo agoWhen LibreOffice appeared on the stage, that was actually my first test back then: opening an existing ODT document I had written. It was already displayed incorrectly at the time.
- 1718627440 9mo agoAre there test files downloadable somewhere, so I can check that myself?
- mminer237 9mo agoMaybe Office 2003, but modern .docx files often don't work right in the web version of Office or in LibreOffice.
- 1718627440 9mo agoBut that wouldn't be backward-compatibility? Also when the MS-pushed web versions can't get it right, does it matter?
- drw85 9mo agoWhich is now piece by piece becoming the Desktop version by wrapping it in some WebView junk.
- coffeeling 9mo agoThey're not rebranding Office, the app suite. They had Office.com, a hub website, and a desktop app called Office that was basically just a wrapper for said hub website. They also had a mobile all-in-one app called Office. As far as I can tell, those are what are being rebranded and made to default to an AI chat view on login, not Office as a whole.