This would be more appropriate in 2004. There is a lot I don't like about Microsoft (and to be fair I have sworn off windows), but they are not the greater evil in office suite or email and are competitively priced while still being, at least in appearance, professional, and not just a search company trying to drive traffic in.
Maybe there is some paradise where we move beyond commercial software, but until we get there, Microsoft has some competitive products
Microsoft Office is nice, but not nice enough to pay for when Apache OpenLibre Office .org works enough.
Microsoft is terrible to work with for email, but I think you're right that Google is worse.
I'm currently planning not to do Windows 11, but we'll see. I'm also retired, so I've got lots of time to be a curmugeon. Windows Phone was nice until they stopped caring and released Windows Mobile 10 anyway.
Microsoft Office is nice, but not nice enough to pay for when Apache OpenLibre Office .org works enough.
I disagree. LibreOffice (which I DO use on a few machines) is still miles behind the latest features in MS Office. MS Office 100% designed around collaborative working these days, with live document sharing and editing, teams integration, cloud saving etc.
Plus some of the latest design options in PowerPoint are simply amazing and Excel has some great time-saving features.
I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, as I do believe in using the right tool regardless who makes it, but in large organisations there's no way you can use LibreOffice seriously.
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This would be more appropriate in 2004. There is a lot I don't like about Microsoft (and to be fair I have sworn off windows), but they are not the greater evil in office suite or email and are competitively priced while still being, at least in appearance, professional, and not just a search company trying to drive traffic in.
Maybe there is some paradise where we move beyond commercial software, but until we get there, Microsoft has some competitive products
Microsoft Office is nice, but not nice enough to pay for when Apache OpenLibre Office .org works enough.
Microsoft is terrible to work with for email, but I think you're right that Google is worse.
I'm currently planning not to do Windows 11, but we'll see. I'm also retired, so I've got lots of time to be a curmugeon. Windows Phone was nice until they stopped caring and released Windows Mobile 10 anyway.
I disagree. LibreOffice (which I DO use on a few machines) is still miles behind the latest features in MS Office. MS Office 100% designed around collaborative working these days, with live document sharing and editing, teams integration, cloud saving etc.
Plus some of the latest design options in PowerPoint are simply amazing and Excel has some great time-saving features.
I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, as I do believe in using the right tool regardless who makes it, but in large organisations there's no way you can use LibreOffice seriously.