Also would be interested in more details on why you like Microsoft Office better than the other two.
And you can still buy a one time license if that suites your needs better.
From my perspective its a huge cognitive burden for an organization to change Office apps that they use everyday. For a technical group like easydns its probably easier and most of the staff might even support it. In my organization we have some manufacturing folks that don't like computers and don't want to learn anything about them. Its hard to make this kind of change, there is a cost to retraining and effects on productivity and happiness.
Last time I bought the on prem off pack (few years ago) it auto installed spyware (one drive) - I did enjoy the multiple layers of phone support though, within an hour it was determined I needed to uninstall and return for refund, no way to run it without the spydrive addition.
open office and libre office have been installed on all systems since.
I understand some orgs can't new software, I think most just need to very basic formatting tools to be highlighted, open and save - which it does great now.
I have to search 3-4 times a year on how to do something with calc.. I see many devs search 4 or more times a day on how to do basic stuff with their daily tools.
Sounds like a couple UX templates would benefit the average company workers out there - one that is super basic, very few icons, and one that mimics word.
I was going to take classes on excel but can't run it.
That makes it easily the best deal in cloud storage for personal use, if you have multiple members in your family and want to use Office.
* Office Apps -- install wherever you want, including on web, iOS, Android and Android-capable Chromebooks to get native apps on Chromebook. You can install on as many devices as you want, around 5 per-person can be in use at the same time
* 1TB OneDrive storage (clients on Mac/Win/Web only sadly, no Linux client yet)
* 50GB Outlook ad-free email storage
* Bring your own custom domain to get @my-family.tld email for your family
* Priority phone support
All in all, for families it's a good offering that competes really well with Google One (one.google.com) -- quite irritating that Google One still doesn't offer that custom domain thing. The 50GB ad-free email per family member is a great offer for instance. All of this for about $100/yr, less with the revamped Home Use Program.
[1] https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/get-a-personalized-...
$99 / year seems like a good deal, until you realize that it might as well be $0 / year if you don't use Office 365 and you're not missing much.
Office 365 sucks for collaborative editing, where Google Docs shines, or for note taking. It also sucks if you want to write highly technical documentation, for which I prefer Markdown, Org or Latex — I know it's not for everybody, but nothing beats pushing text files in Git.
Microsoft Excel is king for big spreadsheets filled with fancy formulas, but for my own purposes Google Sheets has been much more user friendly and I'm the kind of guy that creates sheets for monthly expenses, tracking my weight, etc. And I've seen this going on in our team too, where Google Sheets is much more convenient.
So you're paying $99 / year which is only useful when other people share MS Office formats with you. And I know this depends on the field you're in, but I can literally count the number of times that happened this year on the fingers of one hand.
And sure they give you OneDrive storage too. But you only use OneDrive when you don't care about your data, because their client is a piece of shit. I tried to use it repeatedly and I witnessed serious data conflicts and sync issues within hours of installing their client and this happened several times. Dropbox is more expensive, but Dropbox actually works for the intended purpose.
I did pay for Office 365 for about 2 years, until I realized that I'm not actually using it, wasted money.
I agree, for collaborative editing, I also use Google docs.
Anyway, we have several good choices.
Most folks I know that run linux on the desktop run a Windows VM to use Office.