There are many office suites that are available for free that are compatible with Microsoft Office. Libre Office is my favorite (and it has better math than Excel).
It's sad that consumers have so quickly come to "accept" Microsoft's new subscription-based business model for Office. I personally am still using Office 2007, own it outright, and have absolutely no intention of paying Microsoft a recurring, exorbitant fee into perpetuity for an "upgrade" that is of marginal value to me. That said, I have no qualms about companies commanding a fair and reasonable price for products that are innovative and of value to customers, and Microsoft's wares are certainly that. And if they're able to take advantage of gullible consumers who don't care or know any better, then so be it I guess.
Apparently all I had to do was purchase the discounted one, then it just extended my current subscription once I entered the new product ID...
In response to day2z, My current workload would crash the older versions of Office Outlook. My current Outlook file from the past 2 years is nearly 20gb of data... My archives are much larger than that, probably a total of 60gb of emails that I have to have access too... Office 365 is far superior in stability to 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, etc... I've had them all... Office 365 is definitely the most stable one I've used to date...
Office 2007 is great, I still have it on several machines. For the latest transitions and effects in PowerPoint, I’ve had to use 2016 because 2007 was missing too much.
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It's sad that consumers have so quickly come to "accept" Microsoft's new subscription-based business model for Office. I personally am still using Office 2007, own it outright, and have absolutely no intention of paying Microsoft a recurring, exorbitant fee into perpetuity for an "upgrade" that is of marginal value to me. That said, I have no qualms about companies commanding a fair and reasonable price for products that are innovative and of value to customers, and Microsoft's wares are certainly that. And if they're able to take advantage of gullible consumers who don't care or know any better, then so be it I guess.
In response to day2z, My current workload would crash the older versions of Office Outlook. My current Outlook file from the past 2 years is nearly 20gb of data... My archives are much larger than that, probably a total of 60gb of emails that I have to have access too... Office 365 is far superior in stability to 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, etc... I've had them all... Office 365 is definitely the most stable one I've used to date...
Office 2007 is great, I still have it on several machines. For the latest transitions and effects in PowerPoint, I’ve had to use 2016 because 2007 was missing too much.
Thank you!