I think Logo programming language is the main thing to 100% untick on a Custom Install of LibreOffice. Never understood why it's even included. It's even a vulnerability.
Doing Custom Installs since 1992. Can hardly remember anything were default made sense. Also SOME big names bundle in stupid stuff now.
One reason long ago for Outlook was Exchange. Then Schedules/Calendars. I think Thunderbird does both of those.
MS Office:
Excel and Word are excellent, or were till 2003. The ribbon is daft. The best two programs MS ever did and on the Mac first. I have Word 2.0a, basically the first update to first Windows version and you can see why every other WP on windows died.
Access was always an evil addition, MS SQL and then later free MS SQL engine was better. Maybe Basic MS Office didn't have Access.
Powerpoint was bought in and always horrible compared to the alternatives even in 1994.
In 1995 they deliberately added extra 32 bit APIs (not needed), especially on Win95 to stop Office 95 working on Win 3.11 or WFWG 3.11 with Win32s. So they had to issue a free upgrade to the real 32 bit OS, NT 3.5 to NT 3.51. Office 95 wasn't even completely 32 bit and Win95 was essentially Win3.11 + VFW + 32 bit drivers + Win32s with only the Direct X new (to port DOS games and millstone round MS neck till XP) and Explorer shell, which is STILL inferior to NT3.x Win3.x File Manager for file copies!
They bought in Visio and insisted it was part of Microsoft Office. Not sure if they wrote or bought MapPoint. Those were usually optional extras. They never did much with Visio and is Map Point dead? MS Money was promoted standalone and was pointless compared to either Sage or Excel depending on your needs.
Then MS Borged in Sharepoint, then Microsoft Lync / Office Communicator renamed to Skype for Business.
Exchange is was / is a mess. Originally only proprietary email protocols.
Last edited by Quoth; 04-04-2020 at 10:50 AM.
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