Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116189938186518281

Great! 👍 But look, guys, even if you maybe don't want to directly badmouth Microsoft, you don't have to keep pretending that most people prefer it.

Yes, there'll be minor switching abrasion; familiarity is a strong motivator - but I assure you, the number of users who *want to* work in MS Office or Windows is well witin a single-digit percentage.

- which also means feel free to improve on the experience. "We're not Big Tech" is not your only selling point.

#privacy #OpenSource #QuitBigTech

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Mar 8

@jwcph I do a ton of talks on this subject. People are very attached to their working environment and even if they are unhappy with Teams or Word or Outlook, they also overwhelmingly don’t want change if they can stop it. Your single digit number is very much not what I observe.

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Interpipes 💙

@bert_hubert this is the thing that is baffling to me about microsoft feeling the need to change interfaces for literally any reason at all

Every time they force a substantive change on users they roll the dice that those users might choose to change to someone else’s product if they have to be forced through change anyway