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Microsoft still longs to be a 'lifestyle' brand, but the cupboard looks bare

mark l 2 Silver badge

"There's no point even in pirating it, an Office family pack is much cheaper than the household Netflix sub."

Or for a lot of home users Open Office or Libre Office is more than adequate and costs nothing. I got rid of MS Office on my home and business PCs about 10 years ago and haven't missed it. There have been a couple of times where someone has send a document created in MS office where Libreoffice screwed up the formatting when opening, but compatibility gets better with every new version. And if formatting is important I can ask them to send it as a PDF

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