With so many people experiencing issues with Microsoft Office 2013 activation and random requests to re-activate which result in error codes, or issues where "A problem has occurred" with no log entries or error codes when you try to install the software, it's quite possible Microsoft has strongly encouraged people to seek alternatives.
Since experiencing so many reliability issues with Microsoft Office 2013, issues that did not exist with Microsoft Office 2010, I've become a vocal advocate for making the
I think is has more to due with Microsoft lack of advancement in Office... For the most part what we are doing in Office 2013, is the same stuff we were doing in Office 95. Sure there were some incremental changes that took advantage of newer technologies, some new UI changes that I am not sure if it makes things better. But for the most part things haven't changed too much. Word is still a word processor, Excel is still a spreadsheet Outlook is still a memory hog Access is still causing businesses to slowly go
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday April 17, 2014 @11:25AM (#46779555)
The fundamental ideas behind those programs haven't changed, I don't know if anyone has a decent concept to supersede those paradigms. Some specialty documents require the advanced features that Office has, but most don't seem to need much more than basic features introduced with the original WYSIWYG spreadsheet program, original WYSIWYG word processor, etc.
You can probably thank Microsoft for this... (Score:4, Informative)
Since experiencing so many reliability issues with Microsoft Office 2013, issues that did not exist with Microsoft Office 2010, I've become a vocal advocate for making the
Re: (Score:5, Funny)
I think is has more to due with Microsoft lack of advancement in Office... For the most part what we are doing in Office 2013, is the same stuff we were doing in Office 95.
Sure there were some incremental changes that took advantage of newer technologies, some new UI changes that I am not sure if it makes things better. But for the most part things haven't changed too much.
Word is still a word processor,
Excel is still a spreadsheet
Outlook is still a memory hog
Access is still causing businesses to slowly go
Re:You can probably thank Microsoft for this... (Score:1)
The fundamental ideas behind those programs haven't changed, I don't know if anyone has a decent concept to supersede those paradigms. Some specialty documents require the advanced features that Office has, but most don't seem to need much more than basic features introduced with the original WYSIWYG spreadsheet program, original WYSIWYG word processor, etc.