Microsoft's ad-supported version of Office only saves to OneDrive

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/microsofts-ad-supported-version-of-office-only-saves-to-onedrive

Just stay away from this, your data is in their hands

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7 Comments

TommySoda@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Just use LibreOffice. It's basically on par with what Office was 5 years ago. The average person won't even notice a difference.

alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y

The average person uses Google docs for free (well, at the price of selling their data).

And Microsoft is trying to compete with that with this offering.

I think NextCloud is the best competitor and they also have LibreOffice in the cloud.

lvxferre@mander.xyz · 19 pts · 1y
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circuitloss@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y

Absolutely insane. It's become so clear to me that I need to divorce all of these giant tech companies and move to self hosted solutions.

NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
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BigTrout75@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

All you do docs belong to us

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com · 3 pts · 1y

I don't get folks who complain about libre office at this point. I feel its better but just the microsoft shenanigans with implementation of doc types that messes things up. I don't care. Save as xls and its up to the office person to see it right. If they complain I say it shows fine on mine and send them the pdf formatted correctly.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Macroshit

Dil@is.hardlywork.ing · 1 pts · 1y

I just copied and pasted the github thing to unlock pro and office suite, seems easy enough, idk why I never did that throughout college, just never needed msoffice past the year I needed excel and I had it free then, only grabbed it now just to have it