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That's true but that has absolutely nothing to do with types in programming languages; it has more to do with MS's culture of always favouring backward compatibility and never culling any features in every version.



> it has more to do with MS's culture of always favouring backward compatibility and never culling any features in every version.

The new Office suite are unbelievably buggy and slow not because of backward compatibility, but because of numerous useless "features" Microsoft added which made the software essentially bloatware. By the time Excel opens up on my Mac, I can open several Google Sheets and start working.




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