Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by djsumdog on Sunday October 07, 2018 @03:58AM (#18159384)

I know everyone is suggesting Libreoffice (and it has honestly gotten a lot better recently) but I remember once when my laptop died and all I had was a shitty old Centrino someone lent me, I ended up using the Microsoft online powerpoint tool to make a presentation that was due.

The web versions of MS Office tools are actually pretty well build and feel pretty close to their desktop counterparts.

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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by swiley on Sunday October 07, 2018 @10:18AM (#18160639)

The web version of word lacks an equation editor (someone told me this is partly due to MS loosing the source code for the one in word.)

If you have to write papers with a lot of math in them libreoffice's equation editor is way better anyway. It rarely crashes and uses it's own simple markup language instead of the finicky WYSIWYG editor in word.

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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by msaharia on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:38AM (#18165804)

The killer features missing for me

1. Word - track changes 2. PowerPoint - equation editor

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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by msaharia on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:37AM (#18165793)

Libre office is not even 10% MS Office. Don't know why people recommend it. It messes up my word formatting.

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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by Piskvorrr on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:06AM (#18166278)

Current versions are pretty good - and while MS Office is a veritable power tool (I know no real equivalent to MS Access), most users use ~10% of the functionality; sufficient for many, esp. at the price.

As for the formatting - yeah, MS doesn't seem to follow its own document formatting standards, even for the newer documents. That puts other suites in a hard spot: a) follow standards and present imperfect documents, or b) invest immense resources into bug-for-bug compatibility?

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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by mcny on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @09:43AM (#18184738)

Joel Spolsky is obviously not neutral having been an Excel manager but he wrote that while everyone uses less than 20% of Excel, not everyone uses the same 20% of Excel.

I don't know Excel but I know there are people running entire departments on Excel spreadsheets.

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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by Piskvorrr on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:32AM (#18185804)

Indeed. I do not see a contradiction between that and what I have written.

(Having seen many Excel spreadsheets, 80% of the work is done by rudimentary means: pivot tables are Advanced Magic in this regard)

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