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Microsoft will soon kill your 2019 Office suite

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Imagine you buy a hammer. You take it home, you put it in your toolbox, and you use it to smash nails into pieces of wood. It is your hammer. You paid for it. Then, a few years later, a man in a grey suit from the hammer company knocks on your door, walks into your shed, …

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Office is moving to M1 (yawn)

Support for Apple’s M1 chip is certainly ramping up. While most applications will happily work in emulation, Adobe Photoshop and the gang is on track to be M1 native by early this year.  Also, Parallels has announced that a version of their Windows emulator will be moving to AMD (rather than Intel) so we can …

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Replacing Excel

I have been blabbing on about Pages over Word but we all know there is more to Office than just Word. What about, I hear you yell, Excel and PowerPoint? Very few people, outside of business, use Excel with anything like the same frequency of  Word. There are a lot more notes to the kids …

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