Aside, both LibreOffice and Apple's office suite are perfectly serviceable for K12 education and most public administration.
[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-the-differ...
Until MS stops offering that and you're SOL, subscription model only going forward.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/13/23402155/microsoft-offic...
It showed up in my Microsoft account alongside previous purchases which were at full price.
I haven't had an MSDN account for several years, so I can't compare with that.
(Also, love that iOS parsed that “365 2023” as a phone number)
Probably Collabora.
“Collabora Online. Your Private Office Suite In The Cloud”
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/libreoffice-from-collabora-2...
From what I understand, Collabora is LibreOffice in your browser, with cloud functionality
It's the most complete European office product I've seen so far.
Indeed:
It's an underdog but pretty good. If you want to use something in the cloud which respects privacy more. Does not even need an email for registering and there is a premium plan too.
But I think the more practical solution is LibreOffice/OpenOffice. I think it's encouraged (or even enforced?) to use that office suites for public service/government institutions in France.
https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/microsoft-of...
Of these alternatives, I'm using Onlyoffice for some years now, specifically their Personal tier, which is free of charge. I think it works well, and it's also clear that they are constantly working on it.
Lemonldap (SSO solution) for example.
I think this is a rather naive perspective. I’ve worked in national security jobs, and the idea that services from foreign companies should not be allowed is a completely infeasible dream.
Word was fine. Excel, you felt it was more clunky and lost productivity. Never used the other formats.
Was good enough if you didn't want to pay and were using these infrequently.
The alternative isn't just LibreOffice, it's LibreOffice + Postfix + ejabberd + Samba + Apache + Radicale, which you all have to put on a server somewhere and set up individually.
I mean, even at uni i worked locally.
It's like saying a house is unusable shite because the sink has dirty dishes in it.
Collaborative, concurrent document editing is a must-have feature, especially now with so much remote work.
So it’s not just dirty dishes. A more apt metaphor would be a house where 10% of the time when two people enter a room together, they both lose their phones in the room, can never find them, and have to get new phones. I mean, I guess you could decide that outcome is better than a house in which 0.0001% of the time, the US government looks at the contents of the phone, but I don’t see why you would.
Try again.
bonus try agains:
And they have an obligation not to waste taxes on rent.
And they have an obligation to transparency even if currently all fail to meet.
I balked at it for several years but honestly today it is good enough for music streaming, file sharing, collaborative document editing, photo management, contact management, calendar sharing, issue management, appointment management, etc.
Also passwordless fido2 login.
Why? Because you can’t upgrade between major versions. If you do, part of the software is upgraded and the rest is not. Now you can’t go back either, because the persistent config directory has been modified in the process. There are countless posts in forums about failed upgrades (including this).
I have tried bare metal and docker, and the upgrades have failed once in a while. I am not sure if the snap version is any better.
Democracies require more decisions from citizens than dictatorships but freedom is worth a bit of thinking once in a while.
(Asking, I actually don't know)
All that's ever been missing is for a few politicians to have the vision or fortitude to ignore MS/Apple/Google sales pitches and then stick with it through the inevitable difficult transition period and complaints and address them by addressing them rather than by just going back to the familiar comfortable bad deal.
It can be both; as surveillance capitalism becomes even more and more pervasively intrusive we can see the risks against both individuals and institutions. There's also plenty of history of major governments (including the US and French) using their intelligence services to help in commercial endeavours.
But the war in Ukraine has also demonstrated how quickly the US can cripple an economy.
They are special exceptions to the normal process of law that favour particular actors. Rule of law means that the processes of law must be consistent and public, and fair to all sides; people need to be able to tell their stories publicly in order to be able to find relevant witnesses, for example.