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Denmark has abandoned plans to ditch Microsoft Office after technical problems (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 25 points 3 days ago* (3 children)

One thing I hate, but came to understand about governments and big companies, - is that they only leave stuff if it starts falling apart under them due to lack of support and growing incompatibilities.

Because otherwise the "technical problems" in the title can possibly be one Excel spreadsheet that turned out to not be bug-to-bug compatible when opened in LO.

And now I've read the article, and with the exception of Collabora instead of LO, this is even dumber, they've cancelled the pilot due to "formatting issues". Even after looking a bit at big companies I think they are f-ng parasites and should have somehow gotten used to those "blank pages", thank you very much.

That's an excuse. I say continue the pilot, and fire the focus group of 38 lazy ministerial jerks.

But OK, I'm not a Danish citizen, so please be my guest, you hypothetical Danish citizen reading this, to borrow my opinion.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Used to work IT for american municipalities. I can guarantee you that if a single sheet looked at all different, id get a call. They mindlessly press the same 4 buttons they know how to press and ignore everything else until it "breaks"

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Used to work IT at a university during the transition time from Win 3.11 to Win95. The amount of emotional hand-holding (not even so much technical support) involved in getting the admin staff through the process was unbelievable to me at my young age. Now I understand, but back then I was expecting way more "this doesn't work" or "I can't find this program" and way less "I don't know how I'm going to do my job."

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    Cause the way UIs look when you want to do a job are discarded as "by programmers for programmers and not normal people", and UIs making an illusion of things working by themselves by intuition of the user and hiding specific actions are considered "user-friendly".

    UIs intended for people to do their jobs look, as an extreme, like ed . Less extreme - WordPerfect. XEphem, XGrace, Lisp environments. Those are what you come up with when you want a kiosk, but with a clear idea of a workplace supported by it, or an expert workplace where you do a job.

    While things like MSO, Telegram, today's web browsers, and so on - they are intended for people who don't want specifics. They want the illusion of fuzziness of what they are doing.

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