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Last couple of jobs I did, they used LibreOffice. The thing is they were administration (Army, Home Office) and in the last decade a lot of the administration

Last couple of jobs I did, they used LibreOffice. The thing is they were administration (Army, Home Office) and in the last decade a lot of the administration here dropped MS in favour of Libre for economic/political reasons. And then, just a couple of months ago they dropped Libre and switched to mmm... OnlyOffice. There hasn't been much talk about it -compared to when switching to Libre- but it seems it was decided because they wanted a suite that was available via web but didn't want to go back to MS with O365 or use Google.

calvinmorrison 6y ago
Microsoft is just amazing at 'helping' companies chose software. If you're already on a microsoft stack at work, maybe running some in house servers, exchange, some other things, and you're partially in the cloud as well, it's a no brainer to get office as well with it, and teams, and whatever else. Microsoft has an entire ecosystem that works fairly well. It doesn't make much sense to just use libreoffice when Office just works and comes with the the rest of the pie you are eating.
- franga2000 6y ago
  I'd add a small asterisk here, since MS stuff doesn't actually integrate well. It integrates barely sufficiently while making third-party integration near impossible, so you really don't have much of a choice.
  - calvinmorrison 6y ago
    I have been a linux user since about 2006. I didn't really even know anything about the MS stack when I started at LargeCorp a few years ago. I was actually pleasantly surprised how well most things just worked. Teams was a bit shakey at the start, but the office online integraiton was nice, we were able to collaborate, exchange worked out of the box nicely, the phones in the office were even tied into whatever system we had so I could have my number even if i was sitting at a different desk for a week. I understood why when teams came out they said "okay stop using slack because we now get teams for free". They already have MS every-other-product and now they got another one at no extra cost.

calvinmorrison 6y ago

Microsoft is just amazing at 'helping' companies chose software. If you're already on a microsoft stack at work, maybe running some in house servers, exchange, some other things, and you're partially in the cloud as well, it's a no brainer to get office as well with it, and teams, and whatever else. Microsoft has an entire ecosystem that works fairly well. It doesn't make much sense to just use libreoffice when Office just works and comes with the the rest of the pie you are eating.

franga2000 6y ago
I'd add a small asterisk here, since MS stuff doesn't actually integrate well. It integrates barely sufficiently while making third-party integration near impossible, so you really don't have much of a choice.
- calvinmorrison 6y ago
  I have been a linux user since about 2006. I didn't really even know anything about the MS stack when I started at LargeCorp a few years ago. I was actually pleasantly surprised how well most things just worked. Teams was a bit shakey at the start, but the office online integraiton was nice, we were able to collaborate, exchange worked out of the box nicely, the phones in the office were even tied into whatever system we had so I could have my number even if i was sitting at a different desk for a week. I understood why when teams came out they said "okay stop using slack because we now get teams for free". They already have MS every-other-product and now they got another one at no extra cost.