Why didn’t Microsoft die?

[VicBee]

My customer is all MS and I'm reviewing manuals created in .doc or .docx. While Google can modify and save these, they don't format perfectly the same when you have tables and pictures.

 

[Overnight]

My customer is all MS and I'm reviewing manuals created in .doc or .docx. While Google can modify and save these, they don't format perfectly the same when you have tables and pictures.

Have you tried Apache's OpenOffice?

 

[VicBee]

Have you tried Apache's OpenOffice?

No, I just purchased a 2021 downloadable version of Office Pro. Works fine.

 

[Overnight]

No, I just purchased a 2021 downloadable version of Office Pro. Works fine.

And that's why Microsoft will never die, even though OpenOffice and others like it are free.

 

[mervyn]

De-Microsoft era had long passed when they settled with DOJ, smooth sailing ever since.

 

[semperfrosty]

And that's why Microsoft will never die, even though OpenOffice and others like it are free.

I pay $13.99 per month($9.05US)just to have(mainly excel)Office on my laptop for when I need it.

I must be a sucker? Or am I missing something with Apache?

Doesnt look like I'd be missing anything:

 

[VicBee]

I pay $13.99 per month($9.05US)just to have(mainly excel)Office on my laptop for when I need it.

I must be a sucker? Or am I missing something with Apache?

Doesnt look like I'd be missing anything:

I just paid $90 for 2021 MS Office Pro. At least I can be sure that whatever I send back to my client will be the same as what I see before I send it.

 

[semperfrosty]

I just paid $90 for 2021 MS Office Pro. At least I can be sure that whatever I send back to my client will be the same as what I see before I send it.

Good point VB!

 

[newwurldmn]

You don’t get the updates if you don’t buy 365 but the updates suck and only make work harder. For example I have a lot of workflow through outlook tasks and they changed the task section to almost its own app but not. It’s totally dumb but changed my workflow overnight.

If you use OneNote then you need 365 for the cloud access. And the moment you do that you see that office is basically free (compared to alternatives like Evernote)

Like others have mentioned, accepting that software we used to acquire by paying only once must now be "rented" using the new pay-every-year subscription models has been difficult.

I'm a heavy user of Word, Excel and Powerpoint. When I bought a new home PC earlier this year I really did not want to accept the subscription model and pay every year for Office. I searched around and found that one could buy something called Office Home & Student 2021 for a one-time payment. I bought it and even though it's older it has worked fine on the new computer so far.

Hoping I don't discover next year that it is incompatible with one of the new OS updates... thinking that if it lasts 4 or 5 years or so it will have been worth it.