> The Venn diagram of their customer base and Hacker News commenters doesn’t have much overlap.

You're completely right about this. But how does the Venn diagram look for features between different Office versions and for customer needs? Another commenter here said that Office 98 is good enough for most users, and I have to agree.

What reason is there today for somebody to upgrade from a 10 or 15 year old version of Office? Is Copilot it?

I've managed a very information-intensive career so far without using MS Office. Apple's iWork software is perfectly fine. And I'm not avoiding Office out of any principle. If I needed or wanted it, I'd be happy to pay for it.

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jimnotgym 12 hours ago | parent [-]

> What reason is there today for somebody to upgrade from a 10 or 15 year old version of Office?

Collaborative editing

	▲	carlosjobim 10 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		From what I understand, this was introduced in Office 2010. But maybe it wasn't good enough?
	▲	actuallyalys 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		People here do seem to miss that they added this relatively big feature. The problem for Microsoft is that Google Docs also has collaborative editing, and in my experience, it actually works better.