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People have been making this argument for as long as I've been alive, and for the majority of non technical businesses, it's less true than ever... Malware is l
by crimsoneer 4y ago
People have been making this argument for as long as I've been alive, and for the majority of non technical businesses, it's less true than ever... Malware is less prevalent, and MS Office remains pretty supreme.
- squarefoot 4y agoMalware has been swapped with "legitimized" spyware (telemetry, etc.), which in some contexts with sensitive data involved is simply not acceptable, and although it is without doubt true that MS Office is more powerful than LibreOffice, it is also true that the vast majority of MS Office users would never need the features that LibreOffice lacks.
- ok_dad 4y ago> vast majority of MS Office users would never need the features that LibreOffice lacks Except for Excel. Excel is truly amazing software and there isn't anything to replace it for many people. I use Python now for my number-crunching, but I used to use Excel extensively when I worked in quality assurance and didn't have access to Python. No way that LibreOffice's spreadsheet can replace it, except for the most simple of spreadsheets. At least not today.
- jbarrs 4y agoI've used LibreOffice Calc for plenty number crunching, with a lot of conditional formatting, dropdown data entry, complex cross-sheet formulae, etc. and I've never run into any issues with unsupported formulae or anything like that. Usually any issues I have are just menu features being in different places, or their usage not being entirely clear, but that's easily resolved with a quick Google search.