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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"No one's paying for Microsoft Word, that thing that used to be free so... We gotta kill this so people too fucking stupid to use Libre Office get on board."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And you must create a Microsoft account

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, every time I've used word online it seems to find a new way to completely fuck up the document

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's kind of point. It shouldn't have to be but just like Apple, make the non-payed version unnecessarily shit, artificially limited and constrained so people pay for the premium tier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It works well for basic stuff that a free user might want to use it for. I prefer it to Google Docs by a wide margin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Is sure is.

The Android and iOS apps are free as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, you think MS is doing this to cash in on the huge Wordpad market?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They're doing it because why support the free word processor when they could just support the non-free one?