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Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...

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From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 07:54
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On Sun, 2018-04-22, J  Clarke wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 13:51:54 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
...
>>And no, there are places that would acclaim it. For instance those
>>cities that are switching to Linux and employees claim that they can not
>>do the same thing with LO as with O. Ok, there you have: O. Shut up and
>>work.
>
> You can't do the same things with LO as you can with O.  Try to make
> APL create, populate and format a spreadsheet with coloring depending
> on content.  And before you say "shell script", actually _do_ it with
> a shell script and get back to us on how well it worked.
>
>>No chance MS is going to allow that to happen.
>
> I think at this point Microsoft would be delighted to be out from
> under maintaining the operating system.

And the organizations would be no better off running Outlook,
Office and Office 365 on top of Linux than on Windows.

/Jorgen

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