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Microsoft drops Office 365 for biz. Now it's just Microsoft 365. Word

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If you are already have Macs and Linux, just buy Google G Suite and cut the cord on MSFT. You could do Libre too, but then you still need to do something about the email, IM, file share, etc piece. Google wraps that in a bow, at a way lower cost than MSFT.

iWorks does Pages, Numbers and Keynote and is free. To be honest, Keynote is the only one work keeping, the rest can be done with LibreOffice, but the point is that macos comes equipped with it.

More importantly, you can also use it from somewhere else via iCloud apps - live collaborative working and mass web presenting is now built in to the whole suite.

- email: Apple Mail or Thunderbird, but TB suffers from a lack of attention

- IM: iMessage, also supports other messaging strategies

- file share: not just iDrive, but also anything running webdav.

- calendaring: anything running caldav - and iCloud

- contacts: carddav support out of the box - and iCloud

Furthermore, macos, like Linux, supports open standards out of the box for most of its applications which makes it work exceptionally well with Linux - so we use both.

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