>And it did just that.
That's true. Nowadays, if an OS only gave you the ability to use a computer easily, would people like it or hate it?
I don't know. What does Windows 10 provide beyond the ability to use a computer?
You can get some versions of Linux that are pretty stable with the right hardware, but the lack of MS Office is a total bummer.
PS: First person to say that one can run MS Office using Wine, will get nailed to a tree.
(As an aside, LibreOffice puts into perspective how useful the Ribbon menu is)
MS Office is complex, full of bugs... but it has all the things in place that a power user needs. They gave a big though about the things people need. The CTRL+Y after a CTRL+X on excel is a great example of that.
I have a love/hate relationship with MS Office. I would lave to have something better... but we're still far away.
I rarely use MS Office like software so using LibreOffice has been perfectly fine for me.
If you’re an office expert you’d probably figure out how to use it, but for me I’ve only used an office suite maybe a dozen times in my life so I’m very new to it, and latest Office 2016 allows me to get started easily (the much-hated Ribbon UI works for me and is intuitive), where as I find myself Googling all the time to do even the basic stuff in LibreOffice.
Adding new features gives you a lot of fame. Fixing bugs and improving things does not.
Also, this might sound shallow to some, but the latest version of Office just looks a lot better than LibreOffice and I enjoy that.
Except the keyboard.
This is only true if you lived in a vacuum. Windows 95 was important in terms of Windows/x86 users, but let's not forget that Macs existed at this time.
Windows 95 might have been prettier than Mac OS back at that time (at least that was the view of the Windows people I knew), but it was not leaps and bounds better.
I left Mac in the mid-90s for Windows 95 not because the the UX was better in any meaningful way, but because it was what I used at work. And while 95 in my opinion was still not as good as Mac OS, it met the threshold of being "good enough".