Re:Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
by smt88 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:04AM
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Office isn't "cool" or anything, but people definitely seek it out. No competitor comes close to Excel, Word, or PowerPoint right now.
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Don't they? For 99% of what people do, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and LibreOffice equivalents will do just fine. Heck, Google Docs will do just fine.
For PowerPoint and Excel, I strongly disagree. People do horrific things with Excel that I think are far beyond its intended usage, but they love it for that. You can't pry Excel away from people in finance and a lot of quantitative/non-programmer roles.
Word is more debatable. Yes, if you use it just for taking notes or something, the alternatives are fine.
But if you want to make a nice-looking document, Word is still just a lot better. I've never seen a fantastic Google Doc, for example, even that my company's designers have worked on.
And LibreOffice is another, older generation of UI/UX that is far behind Office at this point.