Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

On 20/09/2024 01:44, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:20:56 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote:
 

MS employees were commenting that customers had been buying the latest
releases for the new features ... but it had reached the point where the
releases they were running now had 98% of the features they wanted (and
the company wasn't sure what to do next).

 Verity Stob once asked the question: “name one feature of Microsoft Office
that you use daily, that was added this century”.
 Think about it. ;)

I haven't had MS Office software installed on a computer since Word for Windows 2.0 in the days of 16-bit Windows 3.1.
I do have LibreOffice on both my Windows and Linux systems, but it is far from daily that I use them.  And I've seen improvements in LibreOffice (and before that, Open Office, and before that, Star Office) within this century.  It's generally been easier to create decent structured documents with high quality pdf generation - I don't know if MS Office can yet make good pdfs (with table of contents, clickable links, etc., but if so, it's recent).  And it's got gradually better at handling the odd and non-standard documents made by MS Office.