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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by int_19h on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:19PM (#45663029)
SharePoint really is that bad though (and I say this as someone who used to develop for it as a platform).

The fact that it's so widespread in our corporate culture is more indicative of how enshittified it is. Now, realistically, we might not be able to avoid it because of that, but let's not pretend that it's not shit.

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by kapone on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:59PM (#45663771)
It fills a niche. What’s else does?

Yes, it’s not great, but so what?

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by mcswell on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:39PM (#45664008)
What else? LaTeX Beamer, for one; Libre Office Impress for another.
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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by dpark on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:31PM (#45664290)
You are confusing SharePoint with PowerPoint.
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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by mcswell on Friday October 24, 2025 @08:39PM (#45700483)
Oops...
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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by cachius on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:52AM (#45665002)
What niche?
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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by dijit on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:25AM (#45665508)
The niche of trying to do everything and being good at none of it.

File hosting, web application hosting and integrating with Office.

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by croes on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:17AM (#45665814)
How about using tools that do their job great instead of one tool that can do them all but none of them good.

It tells the company values price more than capability.

I asked in my company why we use SharePoint and the answer was name a better alternative. So I asked an better alternative to do what? I never got an answer.

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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by mindok on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:27AM (#45666668)
If the objective is to put files where you can’t find them again, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better alternative.
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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by eitland on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:45AM (#45667215)
Except any plain file server that you can connect to via ordinary protocols?
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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by linksnapzz on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:16PM (#45672212)
Lotus/IBM/HCL Domino.
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