The free alternatives are just 1990s-style office suites. Compared with Office 365, you don't get the free 1TB of cloud storage, the 50GB mailbox, the full onl

The free alternatives are just 1990s-style office suites. Compared with Office 365, you don't get the free 1TB of cloud storage, the 50GB mailbox, the full online versions of Office, the ability to stream Office programs without installing them (so you can use them on, say, a cybercafe PC), the add-ons and extensions, the cross-platform tablet and smartphone apps, the free upgrade to the next version of Office, and so on. Office 365 is a huge ecosystem play, whereas OO/LO have no ecosystems. Otherwise, UI changes are annoying, but the basic Office UI hasn't really changed since 2007. It changes less often than, say, Gmail.