Comment on Microsoft has a new idea on how to deter students from MacBook Neo - 9to5Mac
stoy@lemmy.zip 10 hours agoOk, so students can select either:
- A computer that they can study, work, (light) game, edit photos, and do much more on, without a digital use by date.
- An admittedly excellent office suite, a collection of games, for a limited time, and an Xbox controller, but only if they buy a specific computer.
Yeah, nah Microsoft, nah.
Asetru@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Every time some colleague uses office and I’m forced to hop on as well it feels like my whole workflow just grinds to a halt and there’s nothing that I’d want more than to throw my laptop out the window… There’s not much else that I hate with the same passion like ms Office. “Admittedly excellent”? What?
What? Apple just drops devices at some point.
B0rax@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Regarding the second point… the offer from Microsoft is good for 12 months. The Apple software does not expire. Sure, the support will end in about 7 years, but that’s a completely different story
stoy@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
That was exactly my point.
stoy@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
You must have a pretty specific workflow that fails so completely using Microsoft Office.
The second point is that as has already been mentioned, you can keep using the computer after the software support ends, that doesn’t really work for most subscription software.
Asetru@feddit.org 4 hours ago
My company provides latex templates, so I’m using those. They also provide a gitlab instance, so working collaboratively is easy and reliable.
Fair point.