Who in their right mind would ever use this company's products voluntarily? I get that it's what some people are familiar with, but damn bruh, you can learn something else. It ain't hard.
@amerpie I’m having this discussion with my daughter at home, who’s pestering me to buy Word and install it for her. According to her Pages is too complicated. Of course Word is what they get trained on at school :-(.
@amerpie I found out recently that the latest version of Outlook pipes all email through Microsoft servers first. Even if you setup a big standard IMAP account that has nothing to do with them. No thanks.
@kevq The day I retired, I uninstalled every Microsoft product from my computer. Even after doing, there were still five Microsoft services running in the background that I had to track down and manually remove the files for.
@amerpie I can’t wait for that day. I would wipe my hard drive compleltey and start all over again. Their product is a shit show, their support is non-existent, and their documentations confuse their own product versions and platforms.
@JohnPhilpin yes my reaction exactly. But I think it shows that investing into getting your application into schools is a good marketing strategy.
@JohnPhilpin Not sure if they are still doing it. But I had the impression they were more focused on the hardware than the software. And that is something which here in Switzerland is certainly still ongoing. A lot of schools have iPads. It just gets paired with the Office suite. I suspect that this is because it is also a “full package” including communication (Teams) as well.
@V_ makes sense (the full package) - but it does make you wonder about who is in charge of education at🍎if they are still only looking at hardware.