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Re:Blender 5.0 by rr808 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:54PM (#45975334)
Microsoft Office is dying. Most grads we get only know Google docs and avoid Office. Most of our docs are on wikis or email now.
Re:Blender 5.0 by fuzzzerd on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:07PM (#45975754)
Docs, sure but excel is still excel.
Re:Blender 5.0 by bdangubic on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:08PM (#45975759)
most grads also use C++ :)
Re:Blender 5.0 by buster on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:58AM (#45976319)
But, in my experience enterprises are moving to office365. Ten years ago I would have bet on the Google suite but it looks like Microsoft is winning this game in the corporate world. Google gets all the private users, Microsoft the companies. So, no, sadly, MS Office is not dying. I wish it would.
Re:Blender 5.0 by keyringlight on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @06:20AM (#45978248)
What I've occasionally seen pointed out for a whole range of separate microsoft software is it's not the merits of on individual bit of software that gets enterprises to use it, it's the M365 package deal of all of them, and once you're in that ecosystem then you might as well use it. Teams is the common example where this comes up, where it's shortcomings are well known but the costs of licensing and setting up an alternative can't get over the threshold.
Re:Blender 5.0 by oblio on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @03:31AM (#45977138)
Graduates in which domain?
Re:Blender 5.0 by lenkite on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @04:21AM (#45977494)
> Most grads we get only know Google docs and avoid Office

Not true of business grads - who btw are the ones who have the purchase power for enterprise wide M$ Office when they join orgs. STEM grads need to kneel and obey their purchasing decisions.