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Microsoft Office Is Still a Thing and Here Are the 8 (Sad) Reasons Why

This Software Refuses to Die

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Burk
Apr 30, 2025
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My Medium friends can read this story over there as well.

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Let’s start with a simple question: Why are people still using Microsoft Office in 2025?

Is it because Word writes better than Google Docs? (It doesn’t.)

Is Excel secretly sentient, and we’re all just too afraid to delete it? (Probably.)

Is PowerPoint the only thing stan…

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