It’s also easier to hire for. Everyone seems to forget this lol. If I’m hiring a team of accountants at 100k a year and they all have experience with Windows a

It’s also easier to hire for. Everyone seems to forget this lol. If I’m hiring a team of accountants at 100k a year and they all have experience with Windows and Excel, the collective licensing cost is worth it to not have to retrain, troubleshoot, etc. Plus external vendors / B2B customers lock in the Windows ecosystem as well. It’s getting less common, but there are still plenty of businesses that send excel / word docs to each other via email. If your business sends a “word compatible” RFQ that has weird characters that couldn’t be decoded or logos that don’t render, that’s not a great look. The cost of bad impressions is greater than the cost of software licensing from Microsoft.