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Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)
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[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a "Subscription Edition," "Subscription Type," and a "subscription status."

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[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

LibreOffice works at least as well as Word on its own terms, the problem is how Microsoft deliberately breaks interoperability so you can't reliably share the documents you create on Libre with people who are going to open them with Word.

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Works great for printing or converting to pdf, though. I just export them to docx anyway and see what happens.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't they both use the open format now? .odt? I haven't needed to use an office suite for a while, but I would have thought that it would force compatibility.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Word does not use odt

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, first chance I've had to check.

I've just opened a new file in Word and gone to Save As, and .odt is the default choice.

OpenDocument Text (*.odt)