Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 months ago
And if you need it in a browser, there is Collabora, which exists as a paid business version with support or a free non-support version, that can easily be deployed with Nextcloud. Another alternative would be CryptPad.
If you also need your mails in your browser, there are multiple providers like mailbox.org that offer mail encryption even through the online mail interface.
Sometimes I find myself annoyed by Lemmy users. We love to tout foss alternatives, even when they don’t work as well, or aren’t nearly as polished.
Libre office is a different story, it has everything you’ll need, it’s really complete, it does everything you want and it can read any format you throw at it and save its output in any format you need. It launches faster than Microsoft office, it’s more stable, I really have absolutely no complaints, everyone should be using it.
Libre doesn’t support IDM, nor provide email, nor MFA, nor CAM, nor storage.
M365 Business Premium is a LOT more than Office Documents.
Yeah, I’ve seen how Office business integrates with the OS and a bunch of network services, so I’m not surprised by that. Well, for those corporate environments I expect MS will continue to be the norm. But for small businesses and home use, it’s really fantastic.
And honestly, for personal use I could do without all that email and calendar integration, good riddance.
Why would you want cloud storage for users in a business? Why would you want multifactor authentication for your users? Are you serious?
thy were talking about microsoft office. that provides neither of those
But this article and post are about M365 Business Premium licenses
Those factors help drive office adoption. It’s a one stop shop. Many companies don’t want to bother with their own servers, they’d rather just buy a service.
Microsoft 365 Business Basic gives you all this:
Identity and access management for up to 300 users
Web and mobile versions3 of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Custom business email (you@yourbusiness.com)
Chat, call, and video conference with Microsoft Teams
1 TB of cloud storage per employee
10+ additional apps for your business needs (including Microsoft Bookings, Planner, and Forms)
AI chat experience with web grounding, writing assistance, data analysis, and access to agents4
Automatic spam and malware filtering
Anytime phone and web support
LibreOffice gives you ………. 1 of those bullet points lol. Not really a like for like replacement is it?
Libre Office, like some office software, can’t meet the needs of businesses at the pace they’re moving. Furthermore, developers aren’t going to spend their time and resources creating a project that can compete with proprietary software. It would take an organization with more resources to try to keep up, but that would take a few years.
Does it support macros?
Yeah it does. I’ll be honest, I don’t use spreadsheets much so I don’t have personal experience with it, but yeah it does support that.
GNOME Evolution is also a good outlook alternative and am pretty sure it was made as a open source alternative to outlook
Has it gotten a makeover yet? Last time I used it ~3 years ago it still looked like it was built in the early 90s.
It was functional, not a complaint about that. The super old design just got on my nerves.
Depends on the GTK theme ig?
Outlook alternatives are irrelevant when you don’t have your own email address. Microsoft 365 gives your company your corporate email.
I use evolution! It has some advantages over thunderbird but afaik it’s *nix only.
yeah the only downside
And if you need a more MS Office like feel: Use Softmaker.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah office isn’t the what orgs care about losing with this change. Business premium was the lowest cost license option available to non-profits that allowed access to identity management using entra.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s the real story here.
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So that’s what’s that called. Is that also what tracks who access what and when?
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah. Entra is basically the cloud version of Active Directory, it lets you use SAML to build single sign on systems that use your Microsoft account as the identity provider
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 months ago
Not “basically” btw - entra is the azure/cloud version of AD. It was renamed.