Microsoft Removing Standalone Office Features to Force Users Towards Office 365

Same here.

 

If LibreOffice or OpenOffice or whatever free open source office suite were as good as MSO in term of compatibility, design, ease of use and functionalities, i will be on Linux right now.

 

Yup. Upgrading software gets expensive.... the barriers are now falling with subscription-based pricing and in exchange you
get new features over time. Costs developers way less than bringing out a new retail box version every few years.

 

LO is more than sufficient for most users on a day to day basis. In an academic or business environment, I would only run Word/Excel because that's what every one else is on, too.

 

Also, i don't like re-formatting my whole document (table, text,etc..) because it look unprofessional when opened on a non-MSO application.

 

Mainly because of formatting differences and MSO does use some proprietary layers in additional to the universal odt. format. No one saves in the old Microsoft doc. format these days.

 

They change things that don't need to be changed and people change it right back.

 

Microsoft loves Changes; especially the Radical ones...

 

I just hate the Ribbon interface! Never asked us what was wrong with the old menu interface but Microsoft went ahead and changed it anyway.

 

They have to do that so you think your getting something "New and Improved!!" when you upgrade to their latest version.

 

In my opinion, they should have left the traditional menu interface there too, with the option to switch between that and the ribbon interface. But at least you can change it back to using menus with UBitMenu, for example.

It's a bit like the Start Screen in Windows 8.x. It was a bad decision to ditch the Start Menu, but you could get it back with Classic Shell, etc.

 

I agree. UbitMenu is useful in bringing back the familiar menu found in Office 2003 so the learning curve is made easier.