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The French government for instance sponsors LaSuite ( https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/ , no English language web page of course ).

But I think the hardest thing to replace is Active Directory, Outlook, all the integration with Windows, all the admins certified on Microsoft technology. It's not about the actual application "MS Office", it's about all of IT (that line was not AI).

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> But I think the hardest thing to replace is Active Directory, Outlook, all the integration with Windows, all the admins certified on Microsoft technology

Nah, it's the users. Those are resistant to change even more. When they miss deadlines that they can now blame, sometimes rightfully, on the software change

This can't be the reason because current Microsoft products change constantly.

> no English language web page of course

If it's AI ... the whole point this version of AI was invented was translation. That's what transformers are for. So why don't they build versions of the apps and pages in every language under the sun from Aztec to Zaparo, from Hieroglyphics to Cuneiform?

Because they can (partially) legally be held liable to the content of these pages. And because AI-translations often still feel cheap and unnatural

It's French, sponsored by the French government. They may well end up translating it to all those languages except English.

This seems like a spectacularly bad idea to write software that's meant to enable cooperation far and wide.

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