Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hideous

Re:Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hid... by jmduke on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @10:35PM (#6131565)

Office is incredible, incredible software. We're nowhere near replacing it with iWork/Google Docs/Open/Libre.

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Re:Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hid... by kyllo on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @11:24PM (#6131728)

I'll believe that when I stop randomly seeing "Microsoft Word/Excel/Outlook/etc. has encountered a problem and needs to close."

Office is completely bug-ridden and unstable, and always has been.

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Re:Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hid... by btilly on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @11:38PM (#6131762)

Incredible for someone, but not for me.

I haven't opened up Office since 2009. And the only reason that I opened it then is that I was getting attachments from Office docs from users who used it to communicate stuff with me that could have been more effectively communicated in plain text emails.

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Re:Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hid... by mark-r on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @11:54PM (#6131804)

Excel in particular is the Swiss army knife of corporate applications. It's capable of much more than people give it credit for.

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Re:Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hid... by tomkarlo on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:14PM (#6134810)

It's also the source of an unbelievable amount of time-wasting and poor decision-making (due to questionable modeling.) I used to be 100-hr-per-week Excel driver and I do not miss that program, having not used Office in about 3 years.

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