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Re:Google disabled my husband's account by xtracto on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:01PM (#24794643)
> What you can do is use Microsoft Office formats, but Google makes that rather difficult.

This right here is amazing and describes very well the moment in time we are living in. When using a Microsoft file format is [righly] considered the "open", "friendlier" option it really means the alternative [Google] is terrible. Microsoft used to be the Evil Borg that had everything proprietary.

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Re:Google disabled my husband's account by RonanTheGrey on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:44PM (#24795153)
Several years ago Microsoft (rightly) saw the writing on the wall that the way they were going to compete was to be the open solution to everyone else's walled garden. It has been a strategy that has worked out fantastically well for them and honestly MS is one of the very few tech companies I still have any respect for.
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