[roytries]

I'm not a heavy MS Office user. But at my current job I get to use Office 2016, while at my previous job I had to use LibreOffice. While LibreOffice is usable its just nowhere near the quality of MS Office. I take this as an example, because I think this is the tool most people will be talking about :).

As a programmer my company shelves out a few hundred dollar per year so I can use a high quality IDE. In the end this saves time and money.

If I would be a business analyst or PO I would expect the company I work for to shelve out a few hundred dollar per year for the apps I need in my day to day work. In that case it would be MS Office (and Windows).

(MS Windows Enterprise edition is only $90 per year, Office $360, that's a lot less expensive than my developer tools).

Good tools save money, and currently I can't think of anything that surpasses MS Excel, MS Word, or MS PowerPoint