A company should be rewarded by the value they bring to the Marketplace. And Microsoft has provided a huge service, with their Office products over the years. Both work and can be registered with Microsoft to get your upgrades. I worked in a home office until I got laid off a year or so ago. We used Office for business and I was used to it. The laptop is a MacBook Pro. Like you said, the math is pretty clear.
It just becomes a real nuisance. So if there is any chance of you needing to share documents please use standard software and keep it updated. Office is by far the easiest and cheapest way to do that. I have a hard time understanding the attitude some people have about Microsoft.
Microsoft sets the standard for most software. The other thing I like about Office is the document sharing facilities. You can send a link to someone, or a group, and edit a document together, or add comments, and Office will put it all together for you. I can even open a document stored in OneDrive with my phone and edit it, in a pinch. Of course, I like that kind of thing. Some people hate new things and will attack any change in their favorite software.
Sounds like this topic is quite the lightning rod for opinions, Leo! I have been subscribing to the MS Office package for years now and love it.
One thing people seem to miss in this offer is that it also includes use of all the same apps on your Android devices, too. And yes, the 5x1TB cloud space is quite the deal. My data is far too valuable to me to leave it exposed to a unsecured product like Windows XP or older versions of Office.
And having bought licenses for many years in the past, this is a bargain. Read the EULA that came with it. After a certain amount of years I forget the exact number , both of them went dead and displayed a message to the effect that the license had expired and the product was no longer supported.
I used both of them VERY infrequently and could neither justify buying a new license, or, heaven forbid, a monthly cloud version. So I had to abandon both. I have a very mixed environment: windows, Mac in all its form factors, and android, Ubuntu, Mint, device Linux. My solution is one Office license on one computer of fairly recent vintage, one Office of older Vintage, Google Drive and docs for most stuff, and Libreoffice on all computing devices.
I also have an open source super text editor that is portable and runs everywhere. So, from a worldwide and device agnostic perspective Google Docs, even the paid version, is a better general solution for most users worldwide where Linux distros rule. Is this for real? ALL Office licenses are monthly or yearly subscriptions. Hopefully they will contact the vendor to correct the ad. Dealing with MS Word that has been formatted extensively is actually more trouble for most publishers than sending them something done in Notepad or the simplest writing apps.
Google Docs are completely understood and accepted by most publishers and people I write for, and they have gotten really good at saving and opening in other formats. Libre Office is also great, and again way more than most people need. Yes, there are exceptions, especially it seems on the Excel side, so the Office subscription may be worth it to you, but not for most ordinary consumers. My kids have been using Google docs in school since 5th grade, and now in junior and senior year their written assignments are to be turned in online.
I have asked them for help in Word and Powerpoint documents and get a blank stare from them. MS makes the vast majority of their profit from business users. Your kids will one day likely be in a professional environment using Office. The value of 1TB cloud storage per user is pretty much worth the annual subscription by itself.
I used to follow the occasional work related special deals to by the latest version of Office I still have have purchased copies of Office , XP, , but this generally resulted in blow back when someone in the family was not working on their normal PC or was trying to help with a PowerPoint presentation.
That being said, my brother runs his business using Open Office and is very happy with the result. Kind of timely this article repeat. I was thinking of looking for it. Our last laptop came with Office Starter and that was sufficient for our needs. But now, it seems that the shop is pushing people towards Office Yeah, that is a good deal.
It would take 7. In fact the last time I purchased Office was in Office 4. Ran on Windows 3. Had Word 6, Excel 5, Powerpoint, and Access 2.
When I bought a new computer, I installed it on that computer. When I bought my XP computer, I installed it on that. It worked, so I just kept using it.
I never would have used those features. It only crashed on the odd occasion. It was workable. Onetime payment licenses will have to buy the new version. MS says these features will be rolled into the next release of onetime payment versions, when ever that is. So the Home license actually allows you to install on up to 15 devices! They are not fully functional. When you get you also upgrade office on those devices to have more features.
But even these upgraded versions are not fully feature equal to the desktop the usual excuse is OS limitations. When you buy a new computer, you are typically given the option to buy a copy of Office at a reduced priced compared to store retail.
This is the best option to have an hold something you can grow old with. I have macros built into them and not willing to risk Microsoft obsolescing them some day. I do see the benefit is of a subscription if you are running an office or household where you have multiple users.
As a single non-business user I am happy with my antiquated Office 95 which works on my desktop Windows xp and laptop Windows 10 with no issues.
If you are an occasional Office user, an older more reasonably priced version of Office may meet your needs. Thank you for your thoughtful article. Upgrades to Office are like upgrades to Windows, in that most of the upgrades are just change for its own sake so that Microsoft can manufacture demand and sell replacements.
I suspect that a lot of them upgrade only to keep their home PCs in line with the software they use at work. For myself, I run Office on my Win10 box. As long as it has the free add-on installed it can read the new format files for Word and Excel introduced with Office I actively do not want up upgrade — that damned ribbon introduced in Office is far too much of a pain to get to use.
The other reason for updates are security issues. Vulnerabilities in Word and Excel have both been abused to propagate malware of various sorts. Keeping with the latest supported version or any supported version, to be honest keeps you updated with the latest protections. I have it happily mounted on my desktop and two laptops. Keep your old PC with XP or win7 and keep on using what you have.
If you are an individual for yourself why take on the expense of a product that never changes. Greed is what Msft is doing because they have you over the barrel and want to keep you forcibly paying the fee, I strongly believe congress needs to step in and force MSFT to make an option just like before. Its called being an monopoly and they are holding you for a ransom. As she usually only uses Outlook and Excel, I thought it would be best for her to try it.
So now we are both back on Office pre-ribbon. So I can not imagine why I would ever pay for a newer version of Office in any form since the alternatives work fine. Since I only use Word for documents sent to me, I use Excel for Word Processing — I used to laugh at my boss when he used Lotus for word processing — now I know why — lots more control of what it looks like. I agree with your sentiments about sticking with an older version that does what you need, but I have to balk at your comment about using spreadsheets as a word processor.
When writing something in paragraph type format, I would have to say that Word or an equivalent is much better, if you know how to use all the various formatting options. I cringe when I get something sent to me at work and the person has used the spacebar to layout the document, as if it were a typewriter. Learning to use left tab, right tab, center tab, decimal tab makes layout much quicker and more reliable. Also learning to use styles, indents, margins also can greatly help your layout and make your document much more consistent.
Knowing when to use each tool is important. I actually think it is an improvement. If I end up on a computer with an older version of Office, it takes me so much longer to get stuff done because I have to play hunt for the menu option. I try to leave the ribbon on the Home tab and for the frequently used items that are not on the Home tab, I put them in the Quick Access toolbar. This type of radical change is not about age. When you get used to a tool, you want to continue to use the tool to do your work.
Unfortunately, in the world of software and web design there is societal pressure to make changes just for the sake of change. I beg to differ that the ribbon takes more mouse clicks. Just the other day I embeded a Word document into an Excel workbook. I clicked the Insert tab of the ribbon and clicked the Insert Object icon. Same number of clicks. In fact, in an older version, if I left the menu settings the way it defaulted on installation which hides less frequently used commands, I might have had to make a third click, to expand the menu.
But finding things is much easier because the icons are a visual reference. And I would prefer to make my own custom toolbar, rather than be stuck with the toolbar icons that Microsoft thinks are important and having to search through the menus to find the thing that I want e.
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