Microsoft announces Office 2013, Office 365 pricing
Microsoft has announced pricing for the next version of its Office productivity suite, and judging by its aggressive new licensing structure, it would much rather have customers sign up for the new Office 365 subscription model than buy the software outright. "Subscriptions open a host of possibilities," reads a post to …
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Re: Sorry...
Ah, thanks. Although I read it as "use on 5 PCs, but 1 license = 1 user". I may be wrong. But I tend not to let anyone else use my PC, and they can pay for their own office software or download an open source version. Why? Because then they learn the true cost and don't pester me to buy it for them!
An honest question
What does MS Office offer that you cannot do in LibreOffice?
Not trolling - quite honestly curious as to why people want to throw money away when there are free alternatives. I binned MS Office years ago and haven't looked back.
Re: An honest question
100% forward compatibility with documents you receive from your enterprise level clients in five years time?
Re: An honest question
That's probably less the case than it was. Office 2013 supports both ODF and the new, actually implementable OOXML (as opposed to the mess that was rushed through ISO five or so years ago). Both should be supported by any mainstream office product for many years to come. I think generally MS Office is preferred because it offers a lot more in the way of enterprise features, a nicer interface and supports a lot of more advanced features that tend not to be supported in Open Office. I just find it a lot nicer all round and paying $99 for being more productive over a year is easily worth it for me. This is becoming even more true with the online capabilities of MS Office. But each their own. Document compatability is much less of an issue than it used to be.
Re: An honest question
> What does MS Office offer that you cannot do in LibreOffice?
A fairly good guarantee that when you send a third party an Office 2013 document, it will be formatted in the same way as you saw it when you created it and run macros as expected.
Of course, my view is that you should only send data, not executables, and that you shouldn't worry too much about formatting (it is an enormous consumer of time) but I'm in security, not marketing.
Re: An honest question
Apart from the visible stuff like formatting (Open/Libre has NEVER managed not to screw this up for me) Office does a hell of a lot more than you might realise, that OSS doesn't.
For one thing all the macro support is very powerful. For another integration between the different apps (Word, Excel, Access). Thirdly, the ability to call into Office from your own code and generate documents automatically (or to use libs to create Office docs without using Office directly).
To a normal user none of this means much but it's why Office is unrivaled in the techy world. Libre like FireFox is targeting the general home user.
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Edit PDFs as though they were native word documents. ( Actually I don't know if that feature is in LibreOffice I was just impressed by that in the preview version of Office 2013.)
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