• Aatube@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        piracy theme intensifies
        Office is one of the easiest things to pirate. It 1. is very popular 2. has an official mass-activation way that can be easily exploited. I suspect we may have a spy in there
        Or, y’know, just use LibreOffice with the tabs setting and contextual groups if you can afford experimental features
        or if you still hate the UI just use WPS instead, who cares that it’s awful and from China you don’t have to pay

        Also, why would you even get Word or PowerPoint on macOS?? Excel I understand but these two??

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          why would you even get Word or PowerPoint on macOS?? Excel I understand but these two??

          Main reason would be full compatibility with Office documents.

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          Also, why would you even get Word or PowerPoint on macOS?? Excel I understand but these two??

          Because Word and Powerpoint are what they know.

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          1 year ago

          Let me clarify what I meant. I am saying that we pay for the OS which includes applications on both Mac and Windows. Only Mac gives us a free suite of office applications.

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      The cost of the full Mac apps and OS is in the cost of the hardware. At least it’s one upfront cost. Surely the way windows is going can’t be popular or sustainable.