That and why give away their market share? They have people in a stranglehold because of their incopatibilities with other office clients. Just like they did with Internet Explorer.
Have you tried free office? It’s really good. If be surprised if your files didn’t work in it but if they don’t I guess your waiting for office for Linux or perhaps trying office 365.
I run Office 365 as a PWA at work, it works good enough. And I pretty much use it just for Outlook anyway (I never can get the shared calendars to work in the native Linux email clients), LibreOffice is good enough for my word docs, diagrams and spreadsheets. It helps that we use SharePoint, which doesn’t support all of the formatting features of desktop Office anyway
Microsoft office on Linux soon, I hope.
I know there are alternatives but my files do not work with them. I use it professionally and truly need Microsoft office… sadly.
Damn Microsoft and their proprietary things they add to office documents…
I don’t think they would do that because a lot of governmental institutions could easily switch to Linux.
That and why give away their market share? They have people in a stranglehold because of their incopatibilities with other office clients. Just like they did with Internet Explorer.
I did not consider that. I am surprised that any government even allows Windows to be used.
They use an enterprise or custom government version which has a lot of the tracking and annoying crap disabled
But can they be sure the nsa is not watching?
Have you tried free office? It’s really good. If be surprised if your files didn’t work in it but if they don’t I guess your waiting for office for Linux or perhaps trying office 365.
Thanks, office 365 doesn’t even work.
I’m in the process of converting the files so I’m it dependent on office, but it’s hundreds of files and it needs to be done manually.
I run Office 365 as a PWA at work, it works good enough. And I pretty much use it just for Outlook anyway (I never can get the shared calendars to work in the native Linux email clients), LibreOffice is good enough for my word docs, diagrams and spreadsheets. It helps that we use SharePoint, which doesn’t support all of the formatting features of desktop Office anyway