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My wife, a lecturer at a public tertiary institution, is working from home today. Just heard her tell a colleague that the biggest complaint from their current cohort is about the use of "One Note" (which I believe is a Microsoft product, always marketed as 'user friendly') for the course. It offends me deeply that any publicly funded institution could require learners to use Microsoft tools for their studies.
@lightweight OneNote is every bit as horrible as SharePoint from a user perspective.
I hope Nextcloud's SharePoint alternative has a better UI design. One thing I've always disliked about LibreOffice is how much it emulates the MS Office products. Of course, my first exposure to office tools came before MS Office, so I got to see a better world.
@post yes, it was StarDivision's StarOffice prior to being released by Sun Microsystems as #FOSS. Scott McNealy acquired StarDivision when he worked out that was more cost-effective than paying for MS Office for all of Sun's staff. Plus he made it #FOSS because he knew a community would help to maintain it, it gave them great publicity, and was a solid way to mess with Microsoft. Heady days. @lwriemen
@post interestingly, Microsoft tried to get a patent for "using XML to store productivity software data" in many jurisdictions (including here in NZ). StarOffice had used XML well prior to Microsoft getting around to it, so we used it as an example of prior art when contesting it in NZ... MSFT pushed ahead with other patent applications in other jurisdictions, assuming that - despite prior-art being universal - there wouldn't be organised oppositions everywhere. MSFT is unethical. @lwriemen
@post @lightweight Star Writer 1985; Word 1983. Word's the app I hate the most, so ...
@lwriemen @lightweight Well, ONLYOFFICE is even more closely modelling MS Office products. LibreOffice has much more retained its own 'flavour' of a UI stile, which originated in StarOffice. Though, that was largely inspired by the old MS Office ...
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Actually OpenOffice (whose Libreoffice is a fork) predates MS Office.