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by itronitron 2404 days ago
I used LibreOffice at work for two years (on linux) and it was good for most things, I used the powerpoint equivalent and it's definitely under-powered compared to MS but probably fine for 95% of people.

I also did the MS 360 thing once about 3 years ago and will never do that again.
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metters 2403 days ago
> I also did the MS 360 thing once about 3 years ago and will never do that again.

What happened or was the key issue?

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itronitron 2403 days ago
The main criticism I have is the requirement to create an 'account' and then having it 'phone home' every time one of the Office applications starts. This is totally unnecessary as annual licensing for desktop applications was worked out decades ago. The date for when the license expires is not displayed, unlike most annually licensed desktop applications so when it does expire is usually a surprise.

To make matters worse MS office applications always default to saving files to cloud based storage despite my always picking a local drive to save files. There is noticeable lag while the file explorer tries to access cloud storage despite it never being intentionally used.

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