Re: The problem with not owning the software

Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On 2024-12-28 15:12, Joel wrote:

Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On 2024-12-28 14:34, rbowman wrote:

 
You do realize there is a whole world outside of Office?

 
Yeah, it sometimes pains me that it is brought up as often as it is as
some sort of must-have piece of software. It suggests that people don't
do much other than open up Word and Excel.

 
 
Yes, they get these people to buy a laptop every three years, to keep
up with M$'s grotesque OS's bloat, so that they can have their pretty
Office apps.  It's unbelievable.  The value I'm getting from my
computer is beyond what they could know.

 
I was telling my wife the exact same thing. We're not doing much more
than we were in 2008, yet a 2008 machine would be incapable of handling
today's software (unless it's running Linux). At some point, people need
to wake up and realize that the exponential increase in speed isn't
offering any real benefit to users who are doing anything other than
video editing or gaming.

In a domestic setting, that's true. Much less so professionally. A 2008
machine wouldn't be able to run Teams, for example. Or manage the majority
of creative, technical or scientific tasks we take for granted nowadays.