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savant2yesterday at 3:46 PM3 repliesview on HN

Genuine question: why do you consider it to be nowhere near an "Office suite"? It seems to me it fits the definition given by Wikipedia [1]. I guess it is less advanced than Google Workspace or Microsoft Office but it would cover all of my needs at work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_software#Office_s...


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mabedanyesterday at 5:13 PM

Google Docs is a document editor (opening/saving Microsoft office compatible documents, with layout, etc), not a wiki/markdown editor. The La Suite Docs seems a product more similar to Atlassian Confluence.

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thayneyesterday at 5:52 PM

If you scroll a little further down, you'll see that it lists components of an office suite as:

- a word processor - a spreadsheet application - presentation software

This doesn't look like it has any of these

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busterarmyesterday at 9:30 PM

All _your_ needs at work.

All of this goes out the window when you're dealing with a government bureaucracy that has hyper specific document formatting requirements.

This is a real foundational need of nearly every business at some point. Every court system and government agency has their own rules and they need to be tracked and followed perfectly. There are whole sub-industries around dealing with this for legal documents in MS Word.