![]() I hate subscriptions (office 2010 works fine the few times I use it, why pay per year for nothing I'll use - that adds up fast!), but Microsoft and Adobe seem to love them nowadays. you buy it once, and have this particular version, but no upgrades). Office 2013 (I think they released 2016 more recently), fwiw, is sold as a subscription (pay $100/year, but you always have the latest) and as a perpetual license (the traditional type. If you want to save money, just stick with 2007, or maybe try Libreoffice. My work uses Office 2010, and it still works just as well as it always has. Outlook was completely redone in Outlook 2010 (and is much better), but other than that. May I ask why you're thinking about upgrading Office? As far as I can tell, they haven't changed anything significant since 07 and the ribbon. Even Office 2007 opens files from newer versions just fine, while LO has a tendency to mess up formatting a little with those files (with its own file format, it's fine, but MS Office is even worse at reading those - bizarre since it's an open standard, no need to guess at how it works). I find it works well, BUT if you need to collaborate with others using Microsoft Office, then it might not be the best of ideas. Nowadays, most of the development is on the LO side. At some point, because of the company running it (I forget who it was) made some decisions people didn't like, so most of the developers moved on and forked it into LibreOffice. Basically, OpenOffice was the original project. They're related (and both open-source, free software). First off, you want to look at LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. ![]()
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