[IshKebab]

It's it? I try to use open source software as much as possible but Office365 is just significantly better than the alternatives. I wish it wasn't true but it is.

And it's not even that expensive. £8/month/person. Slack is £5/month/person and that's just for chat.

Considering an average employee probably costs at least £3000/month it's a bit silly to worry about these small expenses.

[29athrowaway]

Slack has many competitors. You can replace it.

Does MS Office have real competitors? Google Docs is very casual compared to MS Office. LibreOffice needs a lot of work.

My money was on Corel Office for Linux (with solid products like Wordperfect and Quattro Pro), but Microsoft bought a large share of Corel and it was mysteriously discontinued.

[IshKebab]

Slack has competitors but none of them are as good. At least none of the free ones - I've tried them all. Zulip is closest but it has a weird threading model (it's more like Usenet).

It's quite surprising given how relatively simple it is.

[gronne]

I disagree wrt office 365 (except for the collaborative editing in the browser feature). I dont recognize the price either - more like 22£ (unless its exchange only).

Cost accumulates at scale.

[IshKebab]

Office 365 includes the "real" offline office apps. Prices here: https://products.office.com/en-gb/compare-all-microsoft-offi...