henriquenunez

And they are paying microsoft a lot. The whole financial, HR, marketing departments and even some research groups use "Teams" to communicate.

It's unbeliveable.

However, I do think that the information itself (videos, documents) should be in open formats with open specifications, that allow new / other programs to open them.

Note that I did not say create a presentation. I said open a presentation.

The document in particular has a load of animations, videos, and "rich" powerpoint resources that have been carefully and purposefully designed to be difficult to interop with other software.

Remember?

"One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people's browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company."

https://web.archive.org/web/20110930232927/http://antitrust....

Ah yes, fire to rehire via the model training gig economy

If you havent read yet: https://calnewport.com/is-sora-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-...

If anyone is curious

First by playing 'free market' and getting bilions in incentives from taxpayer money. And then they will be a threat by the time Tesla will lock you into a subscription model and starlink sell your data to the government the first time it will feel threatened.

Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.

I do not mean to give you a "woke" lesson or whatever, but the reality where I come from is that people do not have the instruction level to know that this product is harmful to the health. The child will just ask for it, and if they are lucky/hard working enough to afford it, parents will buy it.