Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX

Re:Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX by ansgri on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @05:17AM (#13062116)

Newer Word versions have this Collaborative Mode (available through Office 365) which behaves like Google Docs, except you work in a full-featured word processor. With it you can edit in real-time via both Desktop and Web versions.

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Re:Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX by atom058 on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @05:47AM (#13062235)

Yes, we used Microsoft's solution for our master's thesis.

<rant> We had to constantly clear cookies, restart the computer, delete our local OneDrive copies and do other quirky work-arounds to be able to do anything. Not to mention the constant crashing and general bugs that plagued the process.

As an example: during the final reading of the paper (a three hour session), I had restarted my computer 8 times and created about 15 local copies of the word document "just in case".

I have heard similar horror stories from other students as well.

It is genuinely shocking to me that Microsoft is getting away with this horrendous performance. </rant>

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Re:Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX by iamcreasy on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:36AM (#13103759)

Yes, used it for a university group project and it was unstable.

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