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by lotsofpulp 1678 days ago
As far as I am concerned, the whole future of Microsoft is Azure and extracting rent from Office.
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Well, until the LibreOffice Foundation gets a bit smarter or greater business support from some heavy hitters. Microsoft relying on Office is on shaky ground.

People arguably use MS Office out of habit and since it's a forced de facto standard at work. But, there is no reason they can't switch to LibreOffice for 95% plus of what people are doing.

Leaders of large organizations need someone outside the organization to blame when things go wrong. You cannot do that with Libre Office.
My org is basically at this point exclusively Google docs. Chromebooks for support staff and Linux laptops for devs. I think only sales is still on windows.