I never worked at a place willing to put up with supporting the 2007+ versions of Office. Those were certainly the "I can't take this anymore" reasons, yes. Op

I never worked at a place willing to put up with supporting the 2007+ versions of Office. Those were certainly the "I can't take this anymore" reasons, yes. OpenOffice also read the new XML-based file formats better than the older Offices with the converters. Since then I've also switched to Linux, which simplifies my decision.