- Messages
- 23,526
- Name
- Toni
- Edit My Images
- No
Did people in those businesses use Chromebooks at school?
Of course they did.
But seriously, until there is a truly unified standard where a document will display the same in every version from every company then there will have to be a single office suite that everyone uses. Things may be different now, but when I bought a Mac in 2009 the spreadsheet program that Apple provided could not display some basic graphs created in the then current version of excel, and word documents were all over the place (openoffice managed much better than the apple products at the time). It's not a case of being fussy - things simply didn't work properly. I currently create a monthly news sheet that I send to a friend with a Mac for printing - if he edits the document on his Macbook or if I adjust it in Libreoffice then the formatting gets broken.
Do Microsoft have a monopoly - certainly. But few businesses would feel it worth taking a stand over this, and it would matter a wet slap what the new employees grew up using when the company standard is MO.