Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: """Standard""" software Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:51:57 +0200 Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <1115q51$la$1@dont-email.me> <111fqaq$2pbrc$1@dont-email.me> <111fqum$11vn7$1@news1.tnib.de> <111gbuk$2sr2f$13@dont-email.me> <111hii9$3b57f$1@dont-email.me> <111ifsc$3hha9$1@dont-email.me> <111ii4p$3ik55$1@dont-email.me> <111l5s4$atk9$1@dont-email.me> <111ldon$c7hh$2@dont-email.me> <111n0a0$sr2s$1@dont-email.me> <111qgti$3eh9f$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net t0MS5ZZrx8quGcoj/Sph8wX1a6vbbHjDrlLxTQCMv1ZVp2hAOT Cancel-Lock: sha1:J1MmfMsmCh5MoNGUsmsBvl51i7U= sha256:ky2O0za4wNIXOrJO2E0E6cxdB+MDxyS9Mn8HfFBO/9A= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <111qgti$3eh9f$2@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.vintage:1793 comp.os.linux.misc:88489 On 2026-06-28 09:02, Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2026-06-27, Your Name wrote: > >> On 2026-06-26 08:37:41 +0000, Nuno Silva said: >>>>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:34:01 +1200, Your Name wrote: >>>>>> On 2026-06-25 05:55:22 +0000, Nuno Silva said: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> And who declared Microsoft products "standard software"? >>>>>> >>>>>> Most of the business world did years ago ... > [...] >>> I think relativism from your part would improve matters too. It's >>> not even a de facto standard the way you stated it, >> >> The majority of businesses in the world use Microsloth Windoze (about >> 60%-66%*) and Microsloth Ofiice (about 82% in 2017*)... they *are* >> basically the standard and have been for decades now. It may be slowly >> beginning to change. >> >> * That figure is for those using the lastest versions Windowze 10 and 11, >> so doesn't include all those still using older versions. >> >> * A very quick search doesn't turn up more up-to-date figures for Microsloth >> Office, only for the online Office 365 version, which doesn't include >> offline users. In terms of just online office apps, Google currently has >> the most users. > > And Google Docs isn't exactly that good. I kept hitting "why doesn't it > have $BASIC_FEATURE_OOo_HAD_FOR_YEARS_BEFORE?", and the version control > being automatic is a bit too useless. For people who don't want to > bother with it? Maybe it's ok. But if I'm aware of it, I may want to > group the changes under a descriptive label, and make separate labels > for separate sets of changes. I have been using Google Calc spread sheet for some years, to track how much gasoline I buy for the car, and how many kilometres it does. Well, one day it lost me entries. It said there was some sync problem, maybe it had stored a local copy that did not match the cloud version. Now that file is impossible to open in the phone, it stalls. I could open it on the computer and save to a different name, but one or two lines are lost. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;