• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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    11 hours ago

    Cause you got a free*, Microsoft Office compatible document viewer/editor, with free* document sharing and collaboration before anyone else made a decent one.

    And it was cross compatible with any computer that had a web browser.

    It was game changing for small organizations, especially non profits.

    • Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zip
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      10 hours ago

      The thing is, I was part of a non profit when they released their collaborative mode. It never made a meaningful change to the way we did things.

      In a Skype call: person 1 “Hey this sentence is wrong, can you replace it with this? pastes in call chat” person 2 “okay sure”

      You could make the argument that it’s clumsy, but I’ll make the argument that nobody is ever fully aware of the changes made to a collaborative doc.