• FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    22 hours ago

    which defined the product category so completely that it’s called “office software–”

    Err, no it’s called office software because it’s software you use in an office. Microsoft didn’t invent the word “office”.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      No, of course they didn’t invent the word. But they popularized the composition of the bundle (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software) and the idea of calling that bundle an “office suite,” a pattern which almost all such suites still follow today.