"Free" Office for Windows is being trialed
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Yes everyone on HN knows how to use Linux and avoid all these traps etc, but you sort of have to know to know. We are at a point where open source versions of common software are often functionally superior to paid equivalents, but hardly anyone uses them because there is no money in forcing people to use them.
What a hellscape the software industry has made for the tech illiterate and children who are kept ignorant in order extract their capital. Having a "free" version of the MS office is about keeping people from discovering better alternatives. It's probably a better return on investment than fixing bugs.
If there is one sin of 'capitalism' which needs to be resolved it is its tendency to make life so easy for so many people that they have to go look for a challenge to make them feel like they're in a fight which they can win. One of the easiest imaginary fights in capitalist society is the imaginary fight against capitalism. These brave keyboard warriors, spiritual descendents of Don Quixote all, tirelessly fight their enemy until they feel a bit pecky when they go to that trendy cafe to get themselves a certified organic vat-grown Bambi-Burger with extra quinoa and a siding of guacamole to go with their single origin soy-latte. Ah, it is a hard life, that of the capitalism crusaders but someone has to do it.
This seems to be severely handicapped. Only onedrive files, no local files, for example.
Grandma’s computer… stuff like that.