Yeah, keep giving Bill Gates and Big Tech more power and money instead of supporting independent developers and open source products... How does that make any sense?
Office 360 is the worst though, it's like installing an AI keylogger. My wife got it with her office computer and showed me just how much data that thing collects. Have to assume that it's sending some of that telemetry collected back to home base.
I do understand that it's not really possible for everyone to switch, but like people have mentioned about libreOffice and other FOSS options, some of these have all significant functions of Office suite, and some even work better with Word than Word does. (Ex: Word DOES NOT EVEN work with earlier word documents, first it converts the doc file to rtf then opens the rtf as a new word version, where others can open any word version as a word document)
WordPerfect can save in all the old Word versions. The new Word program is in the cloud, not in your possession. I won't ever go for that. I'll continue with WordPerfect for word processing, as I've used it since the 80s, and it's the most powerful program on the market. I use OpenOffice (free download) for spreadsheets and presentations. OpenOffice can also save files in Microsoft formats.
I just celebrated two years of Linux, having migrated from Win7 to Mint. I haven't looked back yet. Both Open Office and Libre Office have an Office 97 feel to them, and I miss some of the newer features with Word and such, but these products suffice as proper replacements.
Stop using Microsoft products. There are free, open source alternatives to all their products.
Replace Windows with Linux. Replace Word with Libre Office.
Switching to Libre office would take you less than 10 minutes and MS can and does delete pdfs. Why are you so triggered?
I can understand using it on work device, but you have to be a right moron to use it for your personal documents.
u/M-I-vet how about you fuck off with your damn stealth account, how many do you control????
Yeah, keep giving Bill Gates and Big Tech more power and money instead of supporting independent developers and open source products... How does that make any sense?
And I can't count the number of times I have inadvertently turned something on or off in Word while trying to outsmart its tyrannical macros.
I don't agree 100% but I do love this spicy take.
Office 360 is the worst though, it's like installing an AI keylogger. My wife got it with her office computer and showed me just how much data that thing collects. Have to assume that it's sending some of that telemetry collected back to home base.
I do understand that it's not really possible for everyone to switch, but like people have mentioned about libreOffice and other FOSS options, some of these have all significant functions of Office suite, and some even work better with Word than Word does. (Ex: Word DOES NOT EVEN work with earlier word documents, first it converts the doc file to rtf then opens the rtf as a new word version, where others can open any word version as a word document)
WordPerfect can save in all the old Word versions. The new Word program is in the cloud, not in your possession. I won't ever go for that. I'll continue with WordPerfect for word processing, as I've used it since the 80s, and it's the most powerful program on the market. I use OpenOffice (free download) for spreadsheets and presentations. OpenOffice can also save files in Microsoft formats.
I just celebrated two years of Linux, having migrated from Win7 to Mint. I haven't looked back yet. Both Open Office and Libre Office have an Office 97 feel to them, and I miss some of the newer features with Word and such, but these products suffice as proper replacements.
I use Free Office.
I like Libre Office.
LibreOffice will still flag this phrase. I agree with your advice though. Everyone should switch to Linux and LibreOffice.
https://files.catbox.moe/fmmn3m.png
I understand the need to stop feeding the beast that is big tech, but wokeness is a disease that permeates open source tech projects as well.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/open-source-inclusion/