Sure, lots of people (myself included) used to refuse to run windows, refuse to use any micro$hit software or anything bill g@te$ wrote and would loudly decry them.
But, the reality is, most people just ran whatever their employer gave them and for many many years that was almost definitely Microsoft stuff (especially on the desktop OS and core productivity suite).
Now I think the universe is just more pragmatic and we realize we can and should meet people where they are and arguing over tooling is just bikeshedding, at least I have.
I'm never going to ask people to please stop emailing spreadsheets and send me links to spreadsheets we can all edit online together, but, I no longer care if you send me gdocs or excel.
I'm no longer going to reply to your email with a .doc file with copypasta about how bill gates and microsoft are evil.
But, I'm firmly into grey beard territory these days so maybe i've just grown up but I do think (and hope) most of the internet has too.
Sure, lots of people (myself included) used to refuse to run windows, refuse to use any micro$hit software or anything bill g@te$ wrote and would loudly decry them.
But, the reality is, most people just ran whatever their employer gave them and for many many years that was almost definitely Microsoft stuff (especially on the desktop OS and core productivity suite).
Now I think the universe is just more pragmatic and we realize we can and should meet people where they are and arguing over tooling is just bikeshedding, at least I have.
I'm never going to ask people to please stop emailing spreadsheets and send me links to spreadsheets we can all edit online together, but, I no longer care if you send me gdocs or excel.
I'm no longer going to reply to your email with a .doc file with copypasta about how bill gates and microsoft are evil.
But, I'm firmly into grey beard territory these days so maybe i've just grown up but I do think (and hope) most of the internet has too.