Excel is pretty good. I use it almost daily. Windows still sucks though, imo
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Beneath the surface competition in love & business isn't friendly. However, for consumers choice is definitely a good thing.
I just set up a test meeting in Teams and had no issues assigning unauthenticated participants to breakout rooms. As a participant, I was also able to join a breakout room without any problems. You should check with your IT department to see if they have policies causing the problems you describe.Not with the versatility of the version afforded by Zoom.
The context was that we needed to conduct a mass briefing for parents online, before they dispersed into different rooms according to what class their child was in.
This was pretty straightforward with Zoom. Everyone logged into one giant zoom session, teachers created individual breakout rooms labelled with the name of their class, and the parents chose which room to go into.
With Teams, you have to pre-assign what breakout room to assign each individual participant into, and this only works if they are specifically invited as a participant of said session. It was simply not feasible when you are dealing with hundreds of parents who joined via a shared link.
We ended up just hosting two separate teams sessions instead, but I just felt the omission baffling.
Don’t even get me started about the “wisdom” of placing the share screen button next to the leave icon…
Also, I never had an issue with the location of Share and Leave icons. Still, it's a valid point.
I wouldn't say Surface struggled to gain traction. Surface has actually been a massive success for Microsoft, so successful that it spawned an entire line of devices. Plus the Surface Pro was quite a game changing device.
I don’t understand. I wouldn’t use Microsoft if it wasn’t for my job. You’re saying I’m wrong lol?
Agreed. Excel is good but Google sheets is pretty comparable and it’s free. Plus Gemini AI is somewhat helpful.
Thanks. I will check it out again, because I know that the whole bunch of us cracked our heads overnight but were unable to make breakout rooms work on Teams. It could also be a organisation-specific setting that they disabled. Same thing with requiring VPN to connect (meaning we could only use Teams from our work laptops).
I remember when I got my first computer around 1993. Back when everything came on Floppies and some on CD-ROM.
Microsoft was special to me back them. Used to love some of their apps like Encarta and Golf and Money and Word. The magic started to go away around Windows 2000 I think. I still have a Windows laptop but I don't use it as much as my MBA or Mac mini these days.
Microsoft was special to me back them. Used to love some of their apps like Encarta and Golf and Money and Word. The magic started to go away around Windows 2000 I think. I still have a Windows laptop but I don't use it as much as my MBA or Mac mini these days.
FYI...my latest Mac was $500.00 for my Base M4 Mini, so you could do it! just saying.
This stupid myth again?
No. Apple was nowhere near bankruptcy, nor did Micro$loth "save" them. The "deal" was that M$ got caught with QuickTime code in Video for Windoze, and Apple was nice enough to allow them to "invest" in Apple and guarantee Orifice availability to avoid the lawsuit.
Stop this idiotic nonsense narrative.
Finder is and has always been 1000x better than Windoze Exploder ever dreamed of being.
I really have no idea what you're blathering about, even Finder 1.0 was better than any release of Exploder ever.
You know Keynote exists, right?
Powerpoint is a pitiful excuse for presentation software.
I do use Keynote. But sometimes need PowerPoint to view certain presentations made by others
In the 1980s, due to Steve Jobs leading the creation of a skeuomorphic design GUI for the Lisa and the Macintosh, Microsoft copied Apple for nearly three deacades. In the 2000s, due to Steve Ballmer leading the creation of a flat design GUI for Zune, Windows Phone, and Windows 8, Tim Cook decided it was OK for Apple to copy Microsoft for over a decade.
Cook is a mediocre and clueless MBA degree-holding corporate suit who is just a beancounter. Under Jobs's leadership, Microsoft copied Apple. Under Cook's so-called "leadership," Apple copied Microsoft.
Jobs said Microsoft has "no taste." Cook has no taste, too, and that's precisely why he allowed Jony Ive to copy Microsoft's flat design. Jobs should have made Scott Forstall CEO instead of Cook because Forstall would've continued Jobs's legacy of skeuomorphic UI innovation instead of copying Microsoft's idiotic flat UI creation.
In the short (under one minute) video below, everything that Jobs says about Microsoft applies to Cook:
Cook is a mediocre and clueless MBA degree-holding corporate suit who is just a beancounter. Under Jobs's leadership, Microsoft copied Apple. Under Cook's so-called "leadership," Apple copied Microsoft.
Jobs said Microsoft has "no taste." Cook has no taste, too, and that's precisely why he allowed Jony Ive to copy Microsoft's flat design. Jobs should have made Scott Forstall CEO instead of Cook because Forstall would've continued Jobs's legacy of skeuomorphic UI innovation instead of copying Microsoft's idiotic flat UI creation.
In the short (under one minute) video below, everything that Jobs says about Microsoft applies to Cook:
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Please, no more, I cannot take it, my sides are splitting with your 'humour'.
love to see steam os become a thing soon. wonder if MS would actually react, or just continue the crapification of win11.
It's sad that Windows Mobile died eventually... it was a pretty nice OS
Microsoft today marks its 50th anniversary, during which time it has been one of Apple's longest-standing and most prolific competitors.
Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, starting out as a software company developing a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800. It quickly become central to the personal computing revolution, including through its early collaboration with Apple, where Apple licensed Microsoft's BASIC for the Apple II in 1977.
Microsoft's most significant early involvement with Apple came with the development of applications for the original Macintosh, including Word and Excel, which helped legitimize the Mac as a productivity tool. The 1985 launch of Microsoft Windows, which featured a graphical user interface similar to the Macintosh, prompted accusations from Apple that Microsoft had copied key elements of its design.
The ensuing legal and public disputes would define the rivalry for years. In 1988, Apple filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, claiming infringement of its Macintosh GUI, which it ultimately lost.
Despite the rivalry, Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple in 1997, when the company was in financial crisis following years of declining market share and internal missteps. As part of the agreement, Microsoft committed to continuing development of Office for Mac and making Internet Explorer the default browser on Macintosh systems. During his keynote at Macworld Boston 1997, Steve Jobs announced the deal, stating:
Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, Microsoft and Apple continued to compete on multiple fronts with operating systems, productivity software, mobile devices, and later, cloud services. Apple's resurgence under Jobs was driven by the success of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, while Microsoft struggled to gain traction with mobile devices like the Windows Phone and Surface. Apple has developed alternatives to Microsoft products, including iWork, but Microsoft Office continues to be prevalent and play an important role on Apple devices, including the Vision Pro.
Today, both companies remained dominant in their respective ecosystems. Microsoft's focus on software licensing, large-scale business use-cases, and enterprise cloud computing with Azure now forms a business model that contrasts sharply with Apple's emphasis on consumer-facing products, hardware-software integration, and user experience.
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As long as the global financial system rely on Excel, Windows can be as crappy as they want and businesses have no choice but to use Windows. Yeah, Excel for Mac exists. Excel for Mac is the JV of spreadsheets. I'd rather use Libre Office's spreadsheet rather than the crippled Mac version of Excel.
Congratulations and happy bday to Microsoft! BG mus have been a real tyrant to build such a mega corporation Anyway, wish them continuous success.
My only wish is that they would start using native mac code for their products. MS Office now takes too much space. Each app used to be 500-600mb each (which is not small for a word processor), but now each app is 2 GB each! That is why I'm using less of their apps and conciser switching.
Anyway, wish them continuous success.My only wish is that they would start using native mac code for their products. MS Office now takes too much space. Each app used to be 500-600mb each (which is not small for a word processor), but now each app is 2 GB each! That is why I'm using less of their apps and conciser switching.
Now is a great time to reflect back on the late 90s when Microsoft's software products were actually good and not the nerfed garbage they have now. For example, MS Outlook used to be really powerful and great for organization. The current Outlook doesn't even do half the stuff it used to.
As for hardware I think the surface is a good concept. However I don't trust any hardware from Microsoft as they're the abandonware kings and a bunch of quitters. I think they could have done well with the Windows phone if they just kept improving. It would have been great to have an alternative to iOS and Android.
I hope Microsoft goes down the same patch as Intel where their complacency catches up to them.
As for hardware I think the surface is a good concept. However I don't trust any hardware from Microsoft as they're the abandonware kings and a bunch of quitters. I think they could have done well with the Windows phone if they just kept improving. It would have been great to have an alternative to iOS and Android.
I hope Microsoft goes down the same patch as Intel where their complacency catches up to them.
I guess gamers will find out how important the gaming sector really is to MS if Steam OS becomes a thing.
IMO steam is positioned well to steal a good chunk of that segment from Microsoft. If rumors are to be believed, MS is looking at making Xbox into a platform that runs steam games, epic store games, etc.
But your point stands!