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[Autumnlicious]

Seriously, after all the labs I did in University for physics, I've come to the conclusion that anyone obsessed over needing MS Office is a dumbshit.

Painting with an awful broad brush there, aren't we?

I'd rather use free software, but I have a few spreadsheets here at work that still, to this day, make OpenOffice & LibreOffice puke their guts out.

A) Legacy is just that. Legacy. You forced it to be vendor specific, not agnostic. All bets are off.

B) Office compatibility is going to break, sooner or later. Cruft cannot be maintained indefinitely.

C) If you're writing complex programs in Office, you've already fucked up as you've transcended the scope of minor formulas (to which Office, Open Office, LibreOffice excel at) to actual programs (to which R, Python, Ruby excel at).

Yeah, I feel I can generalize it given that the majority of Office uses are forming new docs, using spreadsheets with simple numerical analysis, etc,.