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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by troupo on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @01:09PM (#44043728)
Every advanced feature of MS Office is used by a different 5% of users. https://web.archive.org/web/20080316101025/http://blogs.msdn... (The whole series is worth reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20080316101025/http://blogs.msdn...)

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The percentage difference in usage between the #100 command ("Accept Change") and the #400 command ("Reset Picture") is about the same in difference between #1 and #11 ("Change Font Size")

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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by fsflover on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:03PM (#44045341)
The commands you mentioned seem irrelevant here. I never use any advanced features, i.e. those not available in LibreOffice or incompatible with MS Word, and I don't know anybody who does.
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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by troupo on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:12PM (#44045427)
"I", "I don't know"

vs.

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How much data have we collected?

- About 1.3 billion sessions since we shipped Office 2003 (each session contains all the data points over a certain fixed time period.)

- Over 352 million command bar clicks in Word over the last 90 days.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080324235838/http://blogs.msdn...

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I wish there were more recent studies on this, but they would paint the same picture

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