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		vivzkestrel 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load... stupid question: why haven't we even heard of an attempt to say rewrite office from scratch or how about even bigger like write windows from scratch for the next version and scrap all the 20 yr old+ workarounds hardcoded into it

bicolao 8 months ago | [–]

because it's not worth the risk of breaking plenty applications out there (or in the case of office, documents). I have heard stories of MS making changes to keep older apps working. Imagine carrying all that to a new rewrite.

matteoraso 8 months ago | [–]

Check out Libreoffice. It's like MS Office, but less resource-intensive.

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