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by omh 1756 days ago
Quite a lot of organisations are now running Office 365. It gets updated monthly with new features as well as security updates.

Even more conservative organisations will often be running Office 365 with a lag, still getting features after ~6 months.

If you need 100% compatibility that will always take a while, and I'm sure some big enterprises are on old style office. But it seems like the vast majority of small/medium business is on the Office 365 juggernaut now.

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True. And a few large organisations are taking those baby steps too. Some of these super-conservative organisations started using subscription software with Adobe’s creative cloud, and got familiar with monthly update schedules thanks to Windows and RHEL patching. They are slowly coming around to accepting that Word and Excel can be deployed and patched just like the OS, and paid for like Photoshop, or used online along with things like Teams and OneDrive inside the organisation.