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It’s the Microsoft Team.
Why would you pay for Microsoft Word? It’s so strange to subscribe to a word processor. I feel like I’ve landed on an alien planet and these people just are the type of creatures that you can’t see their faces because their faces are stuck up their own assholes. There is literally a free and open source software that just works the same as Word. That is free. And it ain’t going nowhere because it has European backing now. Because now the Europeans don’t trust Microsoft. Thank you spaghetti monster. It’s like you’re fucking up. You’re doing it wrong. Delete the virus that is called Microsoft.
word is cheating
They’re called “macros”.
This would’ve been gold if the opposing team was Libre Office.
Word is the team leader
PowerPoint is the one that talks to sponsors
Note is the team tactician
Excel is the stats guy
Publisher is the social influencer
Back when Dota 2 had player icons in a vertical collumn I once saw a Kim Jong Il team with names like “his glorious head” and “his glorious hands”.
Absolutely mopped the floor with them, but still funny.
Good times, I remember that and the face of Gaben.
Gaben’s glorious brow
Gaben’s wise eyes
Gaben’s sculpted nose
Gaben’s loving smile
Gaben’s modest chinSomething like that.
Ah the shitty North Korea style exodia
My friends and I used to play CS as TheCatsPajamas, TheBeesKnees, TheSnakesHips, etc
As if that team wouldnt queue exclusively on cs_office.
The seven horsemen of the 90s workplace computer apocalypse.
Alas, Access was too powerful to make the transition to the cloud. It couldn’t be allowed to survive.
Getting ptsd flashbacks from having to work with access.
Database corruption was so common I’ve had scripts in place to run automatic recoveries.
Terrible security, performance, and SQL feature support.
I’m so glad that thing is buried deep where it belongsAccess got FoxPro’d, right in the kisser
What does it do again?
It’s what many should have used instead of doing everything in gigantic macro filled Excel file.
Access let you build visual apps, usually data-entry workflows, around its internal SQL database. You could build small apps with it using Visual Basic and a visual UI editor. Plus, all your work ships as a single file, provided the user also has Access installed. In many ways, it was like Apple’s Hypercard, but also way easier to write than webpages with the same capability. Oh, and you don’t need a server anywhere to make it work; it’s 100% local. It was also the next logical step to take after the most complex things you can do in Excel.
That said, it was crippled from the start - still very useful, but not for heavyweight stuff. It’s limited to a fixed number of UI, pages, database rows, etc, so it wouldn’t compete with more expensive MS solutions (this thing came with Office). I don’t think it got a lot of love because of that, but I personally used it to solve some real problems in the workplace, without need of any (official) developer resources.
In the present day, it would actually compete with a lot of simple business cases that are served in the cloud at some cost.
Honestly Microsoft could’ve had a killer product with Access if they made an easier pipeline from Excel -> Access -> Win32 application/webpage with an SQL backend. Like there is some of that pipeline present, but if Microsoft actually followed that vision, created easy wizards for each step that your average office drone can complete and marketed the shit out of it, they could completely own business processes instead of a cottage industry of spreadsheets turned SAAS apps for every niche usecase that could’ve been handled by a common database frontend.
On the other hand, now we have a super easy jumping point for anyone in a large business who can program a little to spin up a new startup. Find a business process that’s currently a spreadsheet/on paper, write a database frontend to easily handle that then sell your solution to businesses looking to remove load bearing paperwork and spreadsheets
Exactly. Access was a dirt-cheap rapid application design (RAD) tool in disguise, and very easily could have been shaped into a smooth on-ramp to ASP, ASPX, IIS, and SqlServer solutions. In short: a hypothetical “Access.NET” would have been really something.
On the other hand, now we have a super easy jumping point for anyone in a large business who can program a little to spin up a new startup. Find a business process that’s currently a spreadsheet/on paper, write a database frontend to easily handle that then sell your solution to businesses looking to remove load bearing paperwork and spreadsheets
You just described most of my career, and how a lot of contracting shops get their start. Managers need reports, and someone has to program them. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve replaced Excel with custom software; a faster way to do this is usually welcome. That said, the cloud “Data” space is doing a lot right now to reduce this kind of task to Jupyter notebooks and some other proprietary solutions.
No one truly knows, but there’s always that one guy in the office using it for god awful things it was never meant to do…
I’m still pissed off that they dropped the gold(ish) colour for Outlook.
I prefer the new color.
And hot take: I like the icons of O365 forWortWord, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint. And I prefer those over 2007. But I can compromise with the icons from 2013.Edit: Halo is leaking :p
Wort wort wort!
I was wondering what you meant. Until I carefully read my post again and noticed…
All I can say is WORT WORT WORT
Agreed, the current batch of Office icons - and the updated versions rolling out soon - are excellent. I’m a big fan. But I still wish Outlook was gold.
Outlook 2000 was magic, even if it had more security warnings than a trip to Yemen. The current iteration of Outlook that they’re pushing with Office 365 is an absolute disaster, as if they’ve dragged it down to Teams’ level and let it rot away.
As you can tell, I’m not a fan.
The big problems is outlook like every mail client from the early 2000s collected tons of features during the mail client wars where every client needed to do a billion different things, so now there’s dozens of random little features baked in that very few people use but those who do have built entire business processes around.
For example I observed while working at a bank that the backend finance people would use the voting feature to vote on whether to bundle certain loans together. I’ve never before or since seen anyone in any business actively use that feature. There’s lots of other little features and tunables buried deep in Outlook and it’s a royal pain as an IT person to quickly learn about whatever obscure feature a user is complaining stopped working and of course figure out what the intended workflow for the feature is to begin with before I can even start troubleshooting how to fix it
I can’t blame Microsoft for wanting to greenfield Outlook development to a new standard base that’s shared between webmail and the application, but holy crap the amount of technical debt Outlook accumulated is going to take ages to escape from.
Personally, I don’t mind Outlook (new). It sends and receives emails, it shows my Teams meetings on the calendar, and it lets me easily schedule calendar events and Teams meetings, which is all I really need. Most importantly it bypasses a ton of annoying quirks of Outlook (classic)'s license verification and M365 authentication so I generally encourage my users to use it if they don’t otherwise have a strong preference, because it saves me tickets (especially the dreaded “outlook lost teams integration” complaints where Outlook (classic) misplaced its own extension for communicating with Teams (new) and usually involves uninstalling all versions of Teams then installing Teams (Classic) and upgrading it in-place 3x to resolve)
I’m holding to old outlook for as long as I can. I’ll bitch and moan when they rip it out of my hands.
GG! Easy match! If the players are anything like the actual software, they’re slow, extremely unresponsive when you need anything critical done, and will crash out of the lobby before the game ends.
Nah I’ve seen word.exe, they’re so good they’re banned from tournaments
You will play against them next match tho, and the one after that, and so on. Your boss will force you to only play with them from now on, even tho format is portable.
Are there enough Teams logos/Icons to do a full 5 player roster?
I think there’s enough for way more than that if we dip into the whole O365 suite.
Get ready to be excelcuted.
Let me make One Note here since you Power-Pointed that out.
Got any last Word?
Excel-sior!
It’s gotten so dummy. It’s so funny. Poo Poo. Doopity doo doo squeak Squeak of the Squeaky toy. Did you make a boo boo? The lick of the shoe. Let me squeeze all the juice out of you. Stuck in time because we ran by swine. All I hear is… Yack yack yack yack… All work and no play makes a dull boy!..
I ran into Napoleon and Vasco De Gama in the same match.
Orange is forsaken?
Pretty sure the second P is Publisher? Yes, I looked it up. Yes, I do have other things I should be doing.
Not for long, they’re shit-canning it October next year.
Yep, its Publisher. I used the shit out of it for middle school projects/presentations, great for little posters and whatnot
You had to look it up?
If they’re removing it soon, I think it’s safe to say not many people use it.
They just couldn’t shoehorn AI into it, so they’re cutting it loose
