Agrajag wrote on Jul 17, 2012, 14:10:
I would very much disagree in regards to the programming, at least... I write plain C code all day, and I'd kill myself if I had to do it in Windows... Mainly because I really couldn't unless I wanted to live in the ancient past of old-school ANSI C, since last I heard MS still doesn't support C99 and has no plans to support C11... They seem totally focused on C++ only... Plus, I can't live without vim! (Yes, I'm sure there's a port and of gcc, too... But, you were talking about MS's own native offerings being superior here...)
Agreed entirely for coding. If I was still a coder I'd still be dual-booting into Linux.
From an office productivity standpoint, though, nothing compares to Office. Yeah, Word kind of sucks (but is rarely used in a corporate setting, having been replaced by PP) but there's absolutely no comparison to Excel that's even moderately close (Excel is near-perfect) and PowerPoint is lightyears ahead of competition, even with its warts (man, image editing really needs to be better built in! At least Win7 has some ability built in to help, but at work I'm on XP...)
Office 13 looks to really hit Google Doc's main feature, too, the cloud workstream ability. That's always failed for me, anyway, as people stop agreeing to update shared docs with me when they realize what a hassle it is to cut-and-paste from a shared spreadsheet into a PowerPoint doc.