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The other day, my mother approached me about Office alternatives. Before she retired, she daily drove Office, but feels like it's changed so much that learning a new program isn't any more friction than keeping up with AI bullshit.
I got my mom on LibreOffice and she had no problem adapting
She will adapt to service us
Her powerpoint presentations will be added to our own
Microslop 365 Copislop
Some clouds are worth yelling at
I can make LibreOffice Writer look like word 2007 🤗
I still have office '97 visio. Corporate license.
They can't remove my physical media and they can't force updates
Redmond just keeps getting dumber by the day. At least back when the business model was EEE they weren't stupid, just evil. Now they're both but even the evil part is nerfed by the stupid part.
This feels like it'll go the HBO Max, wait Max, no HBO Max, dibocal route
It will be probably just Netflix now, since they bought it.
sigh NetMax? /s
Once again proving that while AI can't do a programmer's job, a tech writer's job, an artist's job, a composer's job, a doctor's job, or any other job involving thinking and understanding -- it can easily do a CEO's job and probably better than the CEO.
Inspired by your comment, I polled ChatGPT 5 direct and Copilot itself, and ChatGPT was smarter than the executive by saying it was a bad idea, while Copilot itself said it might be a bad idea, but it's aligned with Microsoft's vision, which may be more important, but ultimately seemed to have no idea if it was a good idea or bad idea...
So I guess ChatGPT at least is smarter than the MS CEO. Of course Copilot seemed primed to try to favor and vindicate Microsoft's decision. I tried a more aggressive statement that it was stupid to try to get that 'I agree with you by default' and it still tried to soften the perspective in favor of Microsoft.
As a bonus, I asked if it would be a good idea to rename LibreOffice to LibreSidekick. It looked more like the ChatGPT 5 answer for Office to Copilot, saying it's a dumb idea, until the end when it said unless it has an AI assistant like Microsoft Copilot, then it would be a good idea...
My kid destroyed my newish laptop and I could only pluck the memory off it to salvage something. So I am back to surfing and doing office projects on my old Alienware Aurora R4 from 2011 running Windows 7. No more gaming for me but also, no need for office products for now and the foreseeable future. Today it would cost me almost double to replace the laptop he destroyed with how much my memory and graphics card would cost. I am so happy that when my Office 360 is up in March I can tell them to fuck off. I am not now nor will ever be a fan of having to pay you over $100 a year so I can open a Word Doc or an old Excel spreadsheet. I am using the web-mail version of my email so I no longer need your Outlook, either.
And..... since I have been hanging out on Lemmy I have seen way too many posts about Linux and gaming to ever think I will buy a windows product again. I miss not playing my Flight Sim and games like Madden but I will never upgrade this OS on this old beast.
Like others I am looking forward to the day when I can build my new computer and install Linux on it and enjoy gaming again.
What I’m about to tell you might shock you, as it doesn't get brought up hardly at all, ever, but… linux.
I haven't used any of that for decades. None of it is necessary ever.
You cannot make this shit up.
"Jerry, could you come into my 365 copilot?" - some boss at Microsoft probably.
Don't confuse it with Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Copilot app ! 😂
Copile of shit
Preview of tickets incoming in the next days:
“Do I have Copilot included?” “Is it the same as Copilot in Word?” “Do I need an extra license?” "Where is the Office app?" "Can you install Microsoft Office for me?"
Ironically a lot of those questions will probably be asked to Copilot itself first and hilarity will inevitably ensue.
It's probably after that that the tickets will rain down en masse and they deserve nothing less :D
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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