January 28Jan 28 If there is already a thread about Office subscriptions and viable alternatives please merge this with the existing thread. Otherwise, I'm fucking done with these leeches. It's bad enough they lock you into a recurring subscription that for all intensive porpoises you can't do without unless you are up on the tech stuff (I am not). Now they have jacked up the price 30% with the justification that it's for the added benefits of having Copilot butt into every damn thing you work on. I don't want / need Copilot for the rudimentary crap I do on my home PC. I use it at work a little bit, but have not once wished I had access to it at home. I've looked around and read a little bit about LibreOffice. Seems it has a decent enough following in the Linux community so was wondering if anyone here uses it. Is it worth a shit? Will I be able to still open all my existing shit? Will I be able to make new shit, send it to someone with regular Microsoft Office and they can open it? Or am I and the rest of humanity just fucked over by the bloodsuckers in Redmond?
January 28Jan 28 6 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said: Is it worth a shit? Will I be able to still open all my existing shit? Will I be able to make new shit, send it to someone with regular Microsoft Office and they can open it? Or am I and the rest of humanity just fucked over by the bloodsuckers in Redmond? 1. It's worth what you paid for it. 2. Yes, it'll even open older Office formats that even Office struggles to do 3. Yes 4. Nope, StarOffice/OpenOffice/LibreOffice was designed just for the purpose of preventing this. It's not great software but then... neither is MS Office.
January 28Jan 28 If microsoft is the answer, the question was fucking stupid. I use Libre Office on my non-apple machines. It’s fine for the basic shit I do with it.
January 29Jan 29 I recently let my Microsoft subscription expire and now use Google docs, sheets, etc... for my basic needs and they more than suffice so far.
January 29Jan 29 1 hour ago, thunderlounge said: If microsoft is the answer, the question was fucking stupid. I use Libre Office on my non-apple machines. It’s fine for the basic shit I do with it. I use it all the time on everything. It's solid for functionality. There are some small differences between the latest docx and the default odt format, but if your docs aren't highly formatted, it should work fine. Mine are pretty highly formatted and it works pretty well, but, I send mostly PDFs of my files to clients because I don't want them editing in-document and creating versioning and metadata problems most of the time.
January 29Jan 29 Author 1 hour ago, Orale said: I recently let my Microsoft subscription expire and now use Google docs, sheets, etc... for my basic needs and they more than suffice so far. I am considering Google stuff but figure it's just a matter of time before they go full asshole as well. Edited January 29Jan 29 by Fudge Nuggets
January 29Jan 29 Why not just purchase a 1 time office license? They run deals all the time for like $25 per machine. Would only need to buy again if you upgrade machines.
January 29Jan 29 Are y'all talking about 365 or standard Office? I don't pay very much for standard Office.
January 29Jan 29 Author 12 hours ago, MonkeyDoughnut said: Why not just purchase a 1 time office license? They run deals all the time for like $25 per machine. Would only need to buy again if you upgrade machines. I thought those were pirated software keys that get shutdown about a week after you use it.
January 29Jan 29 6 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said: I thought those were pirated software keys that get shutdown about a week after you use it. Nope. They are volume keys that are legit.
January 29Jan 29 I've bought licenses from Kinguin. https://www.kinguin.net/ Seems shady but legit ymmv
January 29Jan 29 Yup, volume licenses. Buy them per computer for the lifetime of the computer. Easy enough.
January 30Jan 30 I use Open Office. It works for the limited works processing I need it to do and it’s easy to save documents as PDFs. Be sure and save documents as .doc and not an open office file.
February 10Feb 10 On 1/29/2025 at 9:53 AM, immamac said: Nope. They are volume keys that are legit. that's a stretch and iirc they've been banned from /r/buildapcsales because too many BS keys were being sold, even at places like woot.
February 11Feb 11 Why not just purchase a 1 time office license? They run deals all the time for like $25 per machine. Would only need to buy again if you upgrade machines.Not an option anymore. Everything is subscription.
February 11Feb 11 On 1/28/2025 at 9:17 PM, MonkeyDoughnut said: Why not just purchase a 1 time office license? They run deals all the time for like $25 per machine. Would only need to buy again if you upgrade machines. On 1/29/2025 at 9:46 AM, Fudge Nuggets said: I thought those were pirated software keys that get shutdown about a week after you use it. On 1/29/2025 at 9:53 AM, immamac said: Nope. They are volume keys that are legit. On 1/29/2025 at 3:26 PM, gsoda3 said: Yup, volume licenses. Buy them per computer for the lifetime of the computer. Easy enough. This. After about 5 years on a $25 license, I recently moved from PC to Mac and got a new license for the latest MS Office for about $30.
February 11Feb 11 50 minutes ago, Chewbacca said: On 1/28/2025 at 9:17 PM, MonkeyDoughnut said: Why not just purchase a 1 time office license? They run deals all the time for like $25 per machine. Would only need to buy again if you upgrade machines. Not an option anymore. Everything is subscription. Not true. MS Office 2024 is available now. And, as many have said above, legit keys are often available for as little as $25.
February 11Feb 11 Author Yeah, I went and got one of those keys for ~$25. I don't give a shit if my Office crap updates or not. I appreciate the feedback from this thread, wish I had done this earlier.
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