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by Qwertious 805 days ago
MS also keeps winning because they have billions of dollars to pour into the UX of their Office suite. The FOSS community doesn't spend a lot of money on hiring professional UI designers, and it's "do-ocracy" doesn't handle UI design well because UI design isn't seen as "doing" so much as nitpicking the choices of the programmers who are "doing all the work".

MS bribery is a factor, but if we use it as an excuse to ignore our own faults as a community then we're just screwing ourselves over.

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I've never met anyone who said 'yes, the new change in UI for office is amazing, I'm so happy all my memorisation of UI elements is now obsolete'.
I don't care how many upvotes the parent comment has, it needs more.