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  • tuxrandom@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I suspect most people that only use their Windows computer for general stuff like web browsing, e-mail, multi media, office etc., which is probably the majority by far, will actually fall for the subscription scam.

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      1 year ago

      Yea sadly most people already do via an M365 subscription, if MS decides to tack an OS in with that, doubt many would care enough to make a swap.

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        1 year ago

        I subscribe to M365 because my kids’ schools all distribute their assignments as Word docs. And they apparently use the most obscure formatting features, so the only way to get them to render and print properly is to use full Office desktop. Not even the web apps show them properly, and LibreOffice / google docs import totally mangle them.

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          1 year ago

          Could you ask ChatGPT yet to reformat it for LibreOffice?

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          1 year ago

          Well here at least the school offered an MS Office license to students few years ago, but still, have to pay for the OS…