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361 points robenkleene | 2 comments | 23 May 20 09:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.467s | source
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MintelIE ◴[23 May 20 18:52 UTC] No.23285409[source]▶
Why don't companies come out and tell people what they're doing these days? Telemetry is getting to the point where people such as doctors and lawyers might be violating the law by using a modern computer. And people in the defense industry? Doesn't Apple employ thousands of forns? Who's audited their datasystems and ensured that this stuff stays private?

Much easier and better to just stop using it all and move to a system like Linux or BSD. 99% of people do everything in a browser these days anyhow.

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FpUser ◴[23 May 20 19:21 UTC] No.23285613[source]▶
>"99% of people do everything in a browser these days anyhow."

This exaggeration is clearly absurd.

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MintelIE ◴[23 May 20 19:24 UTC] No.23285633[source]▶
Are you certain about this? I think I was being conservative.

It's easy for us tech nerds in our little gadget bubbles to suppose that everybody is like us. But most people are simple browser users, and Office 365 and Google Docs have all but killed off office software on the desktop for many users.

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1. jeremyjh ◴[23 May 20 20:00 UTC] No.23285869[source]▶
> Office 365 and Google Docs have all but killed off office software on the desktop for many users.

That hasn't been my experience at all. While those tools are definitely used - especially for collaboration - most people on my company's Office 365 subscription are downloading and using the full products for their daily work. This is true in both very large companies and the (non-tech) startup I work at now.

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2. dathinab ◴[23 May 20 20:55 UTC] No.23286344[source]▶
Honestly my experience with collaboration with Office 365 last year was pretty beer bad. At least for sight technical cases people they are many better solutions.