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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Aug 12, 2014 12:32:38 GMT
Following with the rest of the company's new mission statement, the Office team has been focused on mobile, cloud and non-Windows platforms. By Mary Jo Foley 07/31/2014 From: REDMONDMAG>>>>> In reality what the hell is really happening with Office? Personally, not interested in Cloud or subscription applications, nor is SMB or big business willing to have a yearly outgoing to keep their Office suites running. (I'm sticking with Office 2010 pro). There is much to recommend Open Source Office Suites with very similar functionality to the MS Office offerings. OpenOffice: filehippo.com/download_openofficelibreOffice: filehippo.com/download_libreoffice/It is no wonder that business is now looking at open source software including Operating Systems and Productivity suites, which in effect, offer the same if not better use. It goes without saying, Open Source also lessens the security problems that comes bundled with their products. [ please note; the comments above come from the member, not the stance of the forum]
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Post by warlock on Aug 12, 2014 13:03:32 GMT
Just being a home user of MS Office 2007, it does all I need it to do. Can't speak for businesses, but I can see where the price of subscriptions might be an advantage. Tax write-off for business expense might be one, (in the USA).
If I didn't already have MS Office 2007, I would probably go with OpenOffice. My opinion only.
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Post by GuiltySpark on Aug 12, 2014 15:14:22 GMT
I can't remember the last time I used MS Office. It may have been early 00's I wonder what happened to all the talk of MS products going SaaS, and PaaS. Maybe that's still to come hence the slow build up.
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Aug 13, 2014 11:06:17 GMT
SaaS, and PaaS SaaS: Software as a Service PaaS: Platform as a Service So we all is gonna end up in a Cloud! What happens when the power goes down?
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