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Re:EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Micr... by typon on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:12PM (#29354733)
I didn't think I (as an experienced software engineer) would struggle so much to save a file until I had to use Office 365. I wish Dropbox was more popular in your average small business office.
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Re:EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Micr... by hvgk on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:01PM (#29355177)
Oh yes that’s a nightmare. They turned saving a file into a kafkaesque dystopian hell hole.

This is one of the things I like about Numbers etc on iOS. It abstracts this away so we’ll I don’t have to give a crap and it appears instantly on all my devices.

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Re:EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Micr... by anandrew on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:27PM (#29354879)
Can you elaborate, for those unfamiliar with Office 365?
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Re:EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Micr... by typon on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:11PM (#29355256)
In general it boils down to "the distributed storage is buggy/not performant".

The standard experience I want as a user is that my "cloud" files should be treated like my "local" files. However, in practice this is not the case. There are constantly syncing issues, files go missing from device or another, old versions appear/disappear randomly, the syncing server can't connect for a very long time (say upwards of 20+ minutes), etc. etc. And of course as Murphy would have it, this usually happens around the time where you critically need to share files across machines with a client or something. It's just generally a really frustrating experience.

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