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> People hate Teams/Office because it's so low quality

People hate Office? I don't think I've seen any significant hate for Microsoft Office (but I personally hate LibreOffice).

> calendar has hardcoded top-down management assumptions

What? Where? Is this about the list of other calendars defaulting to showing people under the same manager?

> information is siloed to only meeting participants

You can configure it to show meeting titles to everyone (the company I work for expects everyone to do so), and the new Outlook even showed me the meeting description and participants when peeking at someone else's calendar.

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I absolutely cannot stand Office. Word is basically acceptable, but I refuse to use PowerPoint unless absolutely forced to. The major problem though is that every single component is blighted by the Ribbon, which among all the bad things that Microsoft has done is the worst.

The hate for Office depends on the use case.

The more sophisticated your documents get the more you hate Office.

> People hate Office? I don't think I've seen any significant hate for Microsoft Office

They absolutely do. Many people hate the office suite in its entirety, lots of people hate some program in particular (I particularly despise Word). Most people are indifferent and have accepted that $Program is what they are using in $Job

This is worthy of some sources, no? People on HN, technology professionals, might hate office. But we're not majority and I've never seen researched/polled numbers about hating office...

I doubt that there are any reputable sources you could find that aren't shaped by bias (of MS or competitors). However, I have worked in a non-IT related job for years and about 90% of complaints about software we use would fit into one of two buckets

1.) Microsoft Office

2.) SAP

I know this is merely an anecdote, but it aligns with my personal experience + with the experiences of friends and family

Maybe go in an office and ask ?

There are two kinds of programs: The ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" (freely after Bjarne Stroustrup)

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