Update boosts Microsoft file imports, adds new spreadsheet functions, and drops older Windows

  • adarza@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    as long as users continue buyingrenting microsoft’s product and continue to create files with it, competing software need to be able to open them. if a program can no longer open those bastardized files, it is that program, not the file formats, that will fade into irrelevance fairly quickly.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah I understand.

      People, like me, don’t use these Microsoft files anymore but I understand I would be incredibly frustrated if one, that I need to open, lands on my lap and I can’t open it.

      It’s just that I wonder how much code is used to even read these shitty files properly. I wonder how many human programming hours is used to deal with them that can be used to progress LibreOffice in some other way? I wonder how many times a LibreOffice programmer is yelling at their screen “WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GO TO A NEW LINE?!”

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        1 month ago

        You probably can compile LibreOffice without MS file formats. Though I agree that it would be much better software if they don’t have to deal with MS bullshit.