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You can still buy a permanent/stand-alone license - and that product can optionally the 'cloud' apps if you want. From my perspective its a huge cognitive burd

You can still buy a permanent/stand-alone license - and that product can optionally the 'cloud' apps if you want. From my perspective its a huge cognitive burden for an organization to change Office apps that they use everyday. For a technical group like easydns its probably easier and most of the staff might even support it. In my organization we have some manufacturing folks that don't like computers and don't want to learn anything about them. Its hard to make this kind of change, there is a cost to retraining and effects on productivity and happiness.

stevenicr 7y ago
Two weeks ago I searched to buy excel on premises install / own - and could only find it for Windows 10 and Mac (not compatible with windows 8, 8.1, 7. Last time I bought the on prem off pack (few years ago) it auto installed spyware (one drive) - I did enjoy the multiple layers of phone support though, within an hour it was determined I needed to uninstall and return for refund, no way to run it without the spydrive addition. open office and libre office have been installed on all systems since. I understand some orgs can't new software, I think most just need to very basic formatting tools to be highlighted, open and save - which it does great now. I have to search 3-4 times a year on how to do something with calc.. I see many devs search 4 or more times a day on how to do basic stuff with their daily tools. Sounds like a couple UX templates would benefit the average company workers out there - one that is super basic, very few icons, and one that mimics word. I was going to take classes on excel but can't run it.