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by mablopoule 1181 days ago
But the office suite is good.

> That's the issue - people should focus their limited time, brain power and "bullshit tolerance" on actual work stuff rather than wasting it on dysfunctional software.

Exactly. Which is why Excel is king in finance, and not a free alternative with half the important features missing [1]

Microsoft do many things wrong, but they also do many things right, and I suspect that you underestimate a suite that really does contains power tools.

Add to that the deployment story for a big enough company, and it's no wonder why it has such a huge market share.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...