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>>fortra+(OP)
> push by Chief Executive Satya Nadella to transform Microsoft into an AI-first company

Why can't we have a 'user-first' company. Maybe think about the user of your products a wee tiny bit. But no, it is not to be.

>>Eddy_V+S6
Because most of Microsoft's revenue is not generated by end-users. It's large government agencies and big corporations where the end-user is ten steps detached from the actual decision to buy or not to buy something.

>>Ethery+wf
Yeah and even the engineers and architects have no influence on the purchase decision. If you ask us we wouldn't buy Microsoft.

But they're really good at rubbing shoulders with the CIOs and convincing them their stuff isn't the mediocre trash it really is.

>>wolvol+ch
It's a story in Germany all the time that some open source zealots get a town government to switch to an off-brand office suite which is so bad that the government worker's union goes on strike to get Microsoft Office back.

>>PaulHo+xh
Most people are just highly resistant to change, even change for the better.

>>stock_+Dj
Ok, but let's be fair. Libre Office et al are terrible.

>>outsid+Oq1
Its really not that bad. I used to use it at work all the time. I did word processing, spreadsheets and presentations all the time with it. Maybe not as powerful as Excel, but I was never really a power user. But then again I never saw any spreadsheets that anybody used that were particularly complex.