"No one's paying for Microsoft Word, that thing that used to be free so... We gotta kill this so people too fucking stupid to use Libre Office get on board."
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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I can see truth to either position presented in these comments, but I don't like being a fence sitter. That being said, I would think making it available but not mandatory would satisfy both opinions, right? Making it unavailable altogether is a move that seems to have an ulterior motive.
I wouldn't be upset if they just put it on the Windows store.
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eh, there's plenty of tools out there like notepad++, atom, obsidian, etc.
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A good alternative is abiword. Don't know if it exists on Windows tho.
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how will I read the instructions a vendor sent me for a windows server that is a word doc because who knows? Oh no... Anyway