This is for commercial users, so if your company mandates MS Office, none of the free alternatives are much use.
On the plus side, the prices don't really matter to those end users, so anyone outside procurement won't notice any difference.
Raising home user prices would lead to a lot more backlash, but I wouldn't put it past MS to try it anyway. They just can't seem to get out of their own way.
Not directly, but it still does matter to me. I'd rather my CEO buy a new car instead of giving even more money to Microsoft, as weird as that sounds.
The real problem is that it makes it even more appealing for C-suiters to cut costs -- and C-suiters usually choose to reduce licence counts (read: firing people) instead of migrating away from Microsoft.
I'd rather have the CEO buy me a new car, but y'know, perspectives and all that. I'm just working my ass off for a 1b 1ba and a used Toyota Yaris, so really they deserve a new Jaguar this week.
I like using LibreOffice instead. Open source is always the way to go.
Someone ought to update the spreadsheet program. Excel is the primary reason companies are stuck on MS Office.
Excel isn't even that great and could be improved greatly, but unfortunately LibreOffice Calc is even worse currently.
OpenOffice is another open source alternative that looks a bit more like Microsoft Office suite, and I think it also supports more file extensions than libreoffice(?)
LO is a fork of OO after there was a spat (it's been like, at least 15y now); LO is the successor, most have migrated long ago
Weird, I found OO was a better and more modern experience than LO.
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