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>Kind of, but at least it works and is compatible with everybody's Office document which is a big barrier to people migrating to LibreOffice.

I still use .doc rather than .docx and its never once given me a problem. The barrier is just unwillingness to change rather than any real problems with LO.

I had no idea they decided that they should make apps for IE. They don't even seem hard to replace with a random app or a calendar. Why are they so unique or needed?

They could easily just have a server and run Windows as VMs and never have issues. Lots of places still use XP or something on an intranet, and even on the internet a VM version won't pose any dangers.




> I still use .doc rather than .docx and its never once given me a problem. The barrier is just unwillingness to change rather than any real problems with LO.

I assume you haven't opened more than a handful of .doc documents then, because around 70% of the .doc documents I open are either broken when I open them (around 20% of the time), or when the other party open them after I edited them (around 50% of the time). In practice docx docs seems to work a little bit better, but not that much (I'd say 50 to 60% failure). And I say that as a Linux user for 14 years now. Until MS365 came, MS Word documents where constant frustration.




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