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.
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.