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Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. (programming.dev)
submitted 9 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Industry Standard software is just a fancy way of saying "Monopoly"

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but it's also not easy to pivot an entire workforce to a new software platform. I work in architecture and the industry on a whole runs on the smallest possible margins and is managed by boomers that can barely mark up a pdf.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago

...that can barely mark up a pdf.

This seems to suggest they can download, locate, possibly extract, and then open one.

I'm genuinely awe struck. Yours are practically self-reliant compared to ours! :(

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's OK if it's FOSS. Imagine if Adobe Acrobat was FOSS and PDF was an open standard - it would have double the features and 10 times less suck.

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

PDFs have been an open standard since 2008.