No, you're not. Physical buttons would be easier but I don't have such a device. Plus it's nice to see the current and next slide on the phone if I glance at it, rather than turning around to look at the slide.
Well so the only reason to use Microsoft Office is because you are forced to use Microsoft Office, exactly. There is no good reason to use it otherwise.
I like that ability as well, you can do more using the iPhone as a presenter than you can do with those little presenter devices. The advantage of being an introvert, is that I do not care about what other people think when I am getting my work done.No, you're not. Physical buttons would be easier but I don't have such a device. Plus it's nice to see the current and next slide on the phone if I glance at it, rather than turning around to look at the slide.
Also, I present technical stuff so holding a phone and using that to switch slides and scribble on them looks ok to the audience
Yes, Microsoft loves for you to have the option that Microsoft Office is the Winning ticket. Of course the only people that win by using Microsoft Office is Microsoft. I know my way in and out of Microsoft Office as I not only have used Microsoft Office since Office 4.3 on Windows 3.1, but I have also written VBA code to have Excel open Autocad drawings, insert symbols, and plot the drawings. As for Page Layout in Microsoft Word, forget about it. You should be using Microsoft Publisher instead. There are reasons why people still purchase WordPerfect and Quattro Pro, the only reason I can come up with is because it is not Microsoft Office. Open Source Software will never be able to compete until you hire the developers to work on it full-time, and that is not going to happen because you have no revenue to hire software developers to work on it full-time. I have been using Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for the last eleven years and nobody has really noticed that I was not using Microsoft Office from the files that I have submitted. The only real noticeable difference comes with Numbers exporting to Excel, because of the pure page of cells layout of Excel and Numbers uses a canvas with objects laid out in manor approach. As far as Google Sheets, it has always been a joke more than a competitor to even the DOS version of Lotus 1-2-3. But the end of the day, you have to make your own decision about the software you use and the only reason to use Microsoft Office is to continually pay Microsoft for doing very little work on Microsoft Office other than rearranging the interface of Microsoft Office.
Cross-collaboration among apps that support odf work surprisingly well. The problem is, although Microsoft updated the Office suite to support ODF 1.3, Office still botches things when writing to odf files. It's going to take something like the EU to require odf format for official documents before MS cleans up their act.
The EU or any government does not have the right or privilege to require any person or organization to do anything. If the government is a dictator, then it needs to be overthrown.
Considering that very old versions of MS Office (2003, 2007, 2010) are far more compatible with the latest MS Office file formats than modern alternatives, I think that your assertion is a safe bet. It's the old, "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run" approach that Microsoft took back in the day.
The EU certainly has the structural support to do that. Perhaps one day they'll see the value in doing that.
It inevitably results in fragmented code with an assortment of issues and very different approaches to doing similar things.
I prefer Apple iWork over Microsoft Office due to a couple of factors, simplicity of Apple iWorks and follows the ideal of doing a simple thing and doing it well. Each of the applications that make up iWork do their tasks extremely well. The second is that Microsoft Office has gone subscription and I will not continually pay for the basic functionality provided by Microsoft Office. On the Mac, just Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are over three gigabytes, while Apple iWork is less than two gigabytes. The government represents a low bar, nothing that we should strive to put up as a standard. As a matter of fact, the government should be minimal as it was designed and only staffed part time.
Don’t know when you last looked at it, but Office has been available on iOS / iPad for years.
Yes, I know that Microsoft Office is now available on iPadOS/iOS, but it is less functional than Apple iWork. I do not use Windows therefore cross platform compatibility is irrelevant as I will never downgrade back to Windows. I can always export to Excel for the poor people that are still using Excel. I find the filtering in Numbers much better user interface wise than using Excel, although I can understand when you are used to using Excel. I do not use conditional based formatting but with a slight adaption in process, you can effect the same result. If these are you issues with using Numbers, then by all means spend extra money on Microsoft Office. As I have stated, I have replaced all of Microsoft Office (Word, Access, Publisher, Excel, & PowerPoint) with Apple iWork and there is no force in this world that would ever convince me to downgrade back to Microsoft Office.
You know, that does not surprise me about Microsoft engaging in anti-competitive behavior. I view the EU as at least twice as corrupt as any other government, so the industry would have to make better decisions than they would. If the industry adopts a standard, it should be something like the NACS for EVs, where the document format should be adopted by the vendors of products, to allow exporting to that format. No government should be allowed to dictate any such standard to the industry, it should be up to experts in the industry not politicians that would not know anything about technology. I think that PDF or EPUB is an ideal format for sharing information. The collaboration choice will be kind of hard because it would need to be something robust and nothing seems to fit that requirement.
I am still baffled by this. I thought Word is what authors use to write books or text books.
I replaced Microsoft Access with Numbers, because I mainly used the databases tables more than any other feature. If I were going to focus on a relational database, it would be either SQLite or PostgreSQL. I classify anyone as an idiot if thye do not understand the theories behind what they are attempting to work upon. So unless you have learned Operating System Design, you would be an idiot for attempting to write code for any operating system. FOSS developers are less in number than professional software developers. Linux is not much more usable than FreeBSD, which is why only 3% of the global population uses one of the 1,500 different distributions of Linux. I stopped writing software when the web was being pushed, I would rather write real applications than writing scripts on a web server. School’s push students into using Microsoft Office. Not sure what many authors use for writing, but there are many options out there and I have read constant complaints about Microsoft Word.
I have used collaboration with iCloud in frequently, but it has worked well enough for my needs. I actually have iCloud access turned off with the Advanced Data Protection and I have not needed to turn it on. InDesign was the most horrible application that I have ever tried to learn. It was like Adobe specifically designs applications to not be user friendly.
That was back in 2001 or so, back when I was attempting to build an electronic book for a project. I would not use it today. I have used Microsoft Publisher and Corel Draw for flyers and such in the past, but Pages is a much better program for my needs today. Of course Adobe InDeign is more powerful, that is why Adobe charges so much for access to the program. Today I have eliminated all of the expensive programs and simplified to Apple iWork. I have not paid for Microsoft Office since Office 97, and that is not going to change.
Microsoft's guidance for long documents has always been to chunk 'em up in separate documents, THEN use a Master Document to consolidate them for TOC, contiguous line/page numbers, cross document search/replace, etc., etc.
The web versions are better than Google's offerings. I actually prefer real applications over using the web. A great day if when you never open the web browser.
Correct. I'm familiar with that... however it is not applicable for the document that I described.
I used to use InDesign or for EVERYthing, no matter how small. Over the years, I got so good with InDesign/Quark (and Freehand/Illustrator) that I'm faster with them than most folks are with Pages and templates -- especially when customers get fussy over teensy details (which is how you know when you've won). Even after all this time, it surprises me how often Apple and Microsoft both simply hit a wall. People are in love with Canva; so many walls.
Most certainly not idiots. However they still need to eat. So either (a) they are contributing to FOSS in their free time, and can only do so much, or (b) someone is paying them to do this full time. It can be a foundation like Mozilla, or a corporation that has vested commercial interest in a specific kind of FOSS, or some group of rich criminals or an unnamed spy agency that see this as a great way to snoop on devices. Most contributors probably fall into (a). But the bottom line is, there's never been real emphasis on security in FOSS space, starting with Linus Torvalds himself. Which is why I no longer run a Linux OS on my main home machine. Now, of course Windows and (gasp !) even Mac have vulnerabilities as well. But they are taking a whole lot more serious approach to it now than 20 years ago. FOSS is largely stuck in the mindset of 30 years ago.
