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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.

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Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Libre doesn’t support IDM, nor provide email, nor MFA, nor CAM, nor storage.

M365 Business Premium is a LOT more than Office Documents.

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- Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Why would you want cloud storage for users in a business? Why would you want multifactor authentication for your users? Are you serious?
    
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    Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh no, I can see exactly why you’d want that in a business… But why as part of your office suite?
    
    It’s like saying “check it out! This car has a toaster oven!”. I mean, cool. And sure other cars don’t, so it’s an additional feature I guess, but why?
    
    Why would you want multifactor authentication for your word documents? Yes, I’m very serious, why? It’s office… Not an os. Hey, if all this stuff really belongs in an office suite, why not throw in an aquarium screensaver and a cobal compiler and disk formatter, that would really round the package out.
    
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- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  thy were talking about microsoft office. that provides neither of those
  
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  - skooma_king@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    But this article and post are about M365 Business Premium licenses
    
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  - someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    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.
    
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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Microsoft 365 Business Basic gives you all this:

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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?
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- MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  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.
  
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catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Does it support macros?

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- Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  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.
  
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