We were talking office suites, but yeah. Though M$ should have lost the OS wars not against Linux (it was a fledgling OS at the time) but other systems of the day. OS/2 was what a stable win3 should have been. VMS or true64 Unix could do stuff windows server could only dream of. Yet marketing to pointy haired bosses brought MS the victory, not technical merit.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, I mencioned the OS, because I don't know much users of MS Office on Linux. Certainly for servers the best option is always Linux. OK, UNIX, AFAIK Windows is also based on UNIX, it even has still its paleolitic Finger Protocol, even present and usable in current Windows 11 (I don't know why, but there it is).

Write in the command line to demostrate it (a simple hello from me):

finger zerush@happynetbox.com

or type simply finger in the console, which listed the syntax options

You can create a own handle using https://happynetbox.com/, this at least permits an communication system when all other fails.