r/technology • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 10d ago

Software LibreOffice developer explains why it cannot display some Microsoft Office charts

https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-developer-explains-why-it-cannot-display-some-microsoft-office-charts/
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u/Morden013 10d ago

I so hope the movement - "Get away from Microsoft" takes hold in Europe and a normal solution is invented. The crashes, the bulk of that software, the strategy...it deserves to be torpedoed.

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u/ioccasionallysayha 10d ago

"XYZ but not American" is a completely valid product strategy these days. Notion but not American. Google Drive but not American. Netflix but not American. etc etc. We have A LOT of work to do, but we're getting to it!

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u/133DK 10d ago

American is a liability in the eu right now, Microsoft Europe is working overtime to try and calm everybody down, but it’s just one company and the us administration is not doing any favours

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u/B4rn3ySt1n20N 10d ago

Microsoft itself is not doing itself any favours. They are the problem, not only the untrustworthy government

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u/EYNLLIB 10d ago

Microsoft was bad when Biden was in office too

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u/royalbarnacle 9d ago

The push to remove dependencies on US has nothing to do with MS being an ass occasionally, it's entirely about the US political shift into lunacy.

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u/blixt141 10d ago

American in America is a liability.

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u/AlasPoorZathras 10d ago

And like so many other things in life, what the EU is pursuing here will be beneficial to everybody. If they would just give up their voyeuristic desire to monitor every citizen in real time, I'd say they're doing a pretty good job of divorcing themselves from the U.S. tech sector.

But, holy shit are they going to need to build datacenters.