[tiahura]

Because they run Word Excel and Outlook.

[zdw]

This is the real reason. Put your data in the MS format roach motel, and it's a challenge to ever get it out with full fidelity.

The mid-oughts battle over this in the international standardizations space is pretty fraught: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open...

And even now, even though there is a "standard" and schemas for, MS's apps mostly ignore them, or use undocumented extensions (as far as I'm aware), so it the whole thing was truly straight from MS's embrace/extend/extinguish playbook.

[tiahura]

"get it out with full fidelity"

Primarily because there isn't a fully-functional equivalent.

[zdw]

It's almost like it was intentionally designed that way...

[tiahura]

Like being able to use the same category for email and events?

[tonyedgecombe]

>Outlook

Even more reason to switch.

[tiahura]

It's 2025 and there is still no open source equivalent with an integrated datastore for contacts, events, emails, and tasks.

The last time I checked, Thunerbird can't flag a contact for reminder, or set the same category for an email and a task?

[anonymars]

To?

[loloquwowndueo]

Can’t you run that on a browser these days?

[kayodelycaon]

Have you tried to use office on the web?

The answer is no, not unless an absolutely crippled version is sufficient for your needs.

[loloquwowndueo]

Of course not - luckily I haven’t used Microsoft office in decades. Which is why I was asking what the capabilities are “these days”.

[nottorp]

Not the good ones everyone is used to :)