Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS::The IRS sent a surprise bill to Microsoft, hitting the company with a $28.9 billion bill for back taxes and penalties spanning a decade, starting in 2003.

  • spudwart@spudwart.com
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    1 year ago

    Paying to use Microsoft office when OnlyOffice exists, lmao.

    And if it’s a company paying for the user’s Microsoft office bs, then imo the point is mute.

    Honestly, Microsoft can get bent. They aren’t going to negotiate to 0, these actions are being done after being long overdue, and it’s clear this administration is raising hell.

    And the extra incentive here of $29B in tax dollars isn’t going to hurt either.

    EDIT: LibreOffice is great if you live in a bubble world where Microsoft Office hasn’t dominated the business and school markets for 30 years. But here in the real world OnlyOffice and Google Docs are popular because they’re backwards compatible.

    If LibreOffice ever wants to have a chance of overtaking OnlyOffice, Google Docs or Microsoft Office, they need to work on backwards compatibility with Doc and Docx. Also I don’t get the “payware” issue. They’re selling services. The Software is FOSS. It’s AGPL v3.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. OO is great for MSOffice files. I love LibreOffice, and it’s great for many things. It just can’t beat OO at MSOffice interoperability