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by pgtruesdell 1691 days ago
A new era of productivity tools by Microsoft is needed. All of their current tentpole products are just web versions of their old apps, and most of them are very annoying or slow or just weird. I'm intrigued to see where this leads as they double down on their web-first strategy.

As for the Wave comparisons, it's more of a technical comparison of the Fluid framework and Wave's real-time collaboration data model/editor, right?
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hbn 1691 days ago
> and most of them are very annoying or slow or just weird

It's kinda mindblowing that in $CURRENT_YEAR we're able to do run beautiful-looking ray-traced video games on a home console that costs a few hundred dollars, but when I launch Microsoft Word on a several-thousand-dollar MacBook Pro it takes over 8 seconds from a cold start (just timed it right now).

We've all just accepted that 8 seconds is an acceptable time to wait to type some words into a computer.

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mikewarot 1690 days ago
My crappy HP laptop running Windows 10 starts Word in less than 2 seconds... you do have an SSD, don't you?
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