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I acquired Office 21 LTSC because I really hated the new design so now I'm safe for the next 5 years. Realize there are probably hundreds of UI designers worki

I acquired Office 21 LTSC because I really hated the new design so now I'm safe for the next 5 years. Realize there are probably hundreds of UI designers working at MS who need to look busy.

KronisLV 3y ago
> I acquired Office 21 LTSC because I really hated the new design so now I'm safe for the next 5 years. I'm personally using various free alternatives to Microsoft's offerings - Thunderbird for mail, LibreOffice for office work, something like Nextcloud for cloud file storage etc. While things aren't always great, it's still surprising to me how viable this alternative path is nowadays, especially when it feels like control over the software we use is getting taken away from us (for a variety of reasons). Either way, software that meets the users and their needs where they are is great! Someone will benefit from cloud based software, someone else with local software that's very popular, whereas others will just be happy to get by for free. Of course, it's also great that we even have those options and alternatives in the first place!
- mxuribe 3y ago
  > ...While things aren't always great, it's still surprising to me how viable this alternative path is nowadays, especially when it feels like control over the software we use is getting taken away from us (for a variety of reasons)... You said it best right there! I've also been using open source alternatives for many, many years...and have plenty of scars to prove it...but nowadays the options are so great. I also admit, there's still room for improvement. Funny enough, i think Google Docs opened the opportunity for products like LibreOffice, etc. to make some headways...because people who have simpler use-cases see that the previously more limited features of an online tool like google docs served the user good enough (not great, just good enough)...that office productivity tools became less a strategically essential tool, with obvious exceptions for niche cases, or cases where someone is using an excel file as a full database when they should not. So, i think this gave products like Libreoffice a chance to catch up, and users with non-niche use cases felt that this offereing is good enough, though of course nowadays its so much better! As you rightly stated: "it's also great that we even have those options and alternatives"!!
GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
I bought an Office 2007 Pro DVD on Ebay last year and it works great on Win 10.

I acquired Office 21 LTSC because I really hated the new design so now I'm safe for the next 5 years. Realize there are probably hundreds of UI designers working at MS who need to look busy.

KronisLV 3y ago

> I acquired Office 21 LTSC because I really hated the new design so now I'm safe for the next 5 years. I'm personally using various free alternatives to Microsoft's offerings - Thunderbird for mail, LibreOffice for office work, something like Nextcloud for cloud file storage etc. While things aren't always great, it's still surprising to me how viable this alternative path is nowadays, especially when it feels like control over the software we use is getting taken away from us (for a variety of reasons). Either way, software that meets the users and their needs where they are is great! Someone will benefit from cloud based software, someone else with local software that's very popular, whereas others will just be happy to get by for free. Of course, it's also great that we even have those options and alternatives in the first place!

mxuribe 3y ago
> ...While things aren't always great, it's still surprising to me how viable this alternative path is nowadays, especially when it feels like control over the software we use is getting taken away from us (for a variety of reasons)... You said it best right there! I've also been using open source alternatives for many, many years...and have plenty of scars to prove it...but nowadays the options are so great. I also admit, there's still room for improvement. Funny enough, i think Google Docs opened the opportunity for products like LibreOffice, etc. to make some headways...because people who have simpler use-cases see that the previously more limited features of an online tool like google docs served the user good enough (not great, just good enough)...that office productivity tools became less a strategically essential tool, with obvious exceptions for niche cases, or cases where someone is using an excel file as a full database when they should not. So, i think this gave products like Libreoffice a chance to catch up, and users with non-niche use cases felt that this offereing is good enough, though of course nowadays its so much better! As you rightly stated: "it's also great that we even have those options and alternatives"!!

GartzenDeHaes 3y ago

I bought an Office 2007 Pro DVD on Ebay last year and it works great on Win 10.