[jbotz]

Monopoly is not the same as "industry standard". And specifically in the case of Microsoft Office / O365 there is very little actually benefit of using it over any of the more open (and even free) alternatives... rather than being an "industry standard" it's really just an "industry default", i.e. what most companies use because no IT manager ever got fired for deploying it.

[iLoveOncall]

You're a SRE, I'd argue that you have absolutely no idea about what is the industry standard when it comes to office productivity suites.

Having this discussion on HackerNews is useless, because people here are at best very light users of Office and at worst don't use it at all.

How many hours per week does your work involve Office software? Because for a lot of people it's 40, but those people are not on HN.

[Robotbeat]

MS Excel is much better than the open and free alternatives (I say that as someone who uses both Excel and LibreOffice fairly regularly).