This is why I've still not bought a personal/home O365 sub.
I'm not a huge fan of Office (except Excel), and use OpenOffice.org's products for the most part. But I have a Windows VM with Office 2010 in it, all legal.
Mostly just for the very rare occasion when I may need to have 100% compatibility with an Office document.
Of course, we're now two versions on. And most idiots who bleat on about 100% compatibility with Office will always forget that Office itself isn't even100% backwards compatible. So at some point, I'd like to upgrade. And O365 looks like a good way to do it.
On the one hand, around £60/year seems like a reasonable price for the whole of Office. On the other hand, I've not actually needed it for months - so it's definitely a luxury purchase. I can't justify it, and the only way to justify it is to use Office more and lock my data into it. Not likely!
If I ran my own business, I'd probably have my hand forced. But as it stands, I'm sure I'll manage without...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
