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  • eurodyne@piefed.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldTitle
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    I will say that excel has always been a solid product, but I haven’t used it since Office for Mac 2004, which was a solid product. PowerPoint was also pretty good, back in the day. I hated Lotus 123, but I really do miss Lotus Notes. that was the preferred method of logging calls when I worked at Dell tech-support, and it was awesome.

    But I am primarily a designer, so as someone who heavily relied on professional page layout tools like Quark and, later, Adobe InDesign, so I have a special burning place in my heart for Microsoft Word— or, rather, what it became.

    I could handle word 6.0, but after that, it was just a monster.

    Oh, and fuck outlook.

    I’d rather like Apple’s Pages app. Simple, clean, and purely functional.


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    Both Plex and Kodi are forks of the original XBMC. Its legacy lives on.

    The Windows Phone tile interface was quite interesting from a conceptual UX and aesthetic standpoint, but Microsoft didn’t implement it very well, and the software itself had some serious issues, both in performance and from an architectural perspective. Then, of course, was the lack of app support, while developers rushed to support the iPhone.


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    Which is ironic because towards the end of the 90s is when Microsoft had the only 4 products of theirs that were any good:

    • Windows NT 5 (honorable mention to NT 4)
    • Microsoft ergonomic keyboard
    • Microsoft USB 2.0 ergonomic mouse with scroll wheel
    • Microsoft flight simulator

    I can’t recall them ever producing anything else of value