• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    13 days ago

    Microsoft expects me to pay for Office 365? No, fuck you, I’ve got LibreOffice and your older Office software still works as good. Your word processing program, Word, hasn’t really changed that much since 2007 or even 2003. Hell, maybe not since 1997!

    So I moved to foss probably about 20 years ago and have been going back and forth between libre office and open office.

    A couple of years ago my wife wanted me office, so I got the subscription…and man it’s so much better than either of those two, and to suggest that maybe it hasn’t changed since 1997 is mindboggling.

    I’m a big proponent of not signing up for these services, but this paragraph really misses the mark for me.

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      13 days ago

      Disagree. E.g. Word typography is not as advanced as LibreOffice. And words document master is buggy as hell.

      But yes. Excel can handle big files now. Still sucks at im- and exporting different csv formats…

      But… Because it’s integrated so we’ll with windows, is faster most of the time.

      In reality: of course word should be a better program and it does get lots of loving from redmond. Only because: if no new features, no new sales. And since word is mostly a solved problem, redmond invented new problems…

      Working with a LO user and a sub par program always beats working with a word user who can’t use styles, review, and merge documents.

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        12 days ago

        As much as I hate Google. I think they are king with document collaboration and sharing.

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          12 days ago

          Yes. But thats not word. Thats something else entirely which atleast my employer would never use (security, long term support, offline, integration with 3rd parties etc)

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      12 days ago

      To me office is the bonus to the cloud storage and syncing. Yeah I know it’s easy to run a NAS but the UX of having to manage it is a headache and quite frankly it gives me more piece of mind to pass the buck of getting pwned to Microsoft or Google

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        12 days ago

        This. Office 365 offers 1tb for 5 accounts plus office for cheaper than just storage from Dropbox or Google drive.

        Office is just a bonus

    • Liam Mayfair@lemmy.sdf.org
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      12 days ago

      Just use Google Docs then. Yes, it’s Google. Yes, it will somewhat tie you into their ecosystem but Google Docs are free, get regular updates and are pretty good overall. I’ve been using Google Docs for many years now. I occasionally use Office365 for work and Google Docs is just as good, if not better.