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01-18-2021, 01:32 PM | #16 |
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01-21-2021, 01:59 PM | #17 |
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After MS Office moved to a subscription service, I finally made the switch to OpenOffice.
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01-21-2021, 03:16 PM | #18 |
'Tis my eye!
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01-21-2021, 03:34 PM | #19 |
Kind of a mod
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01-21-2021, 03:39 PM | #20 |
That's just f***in' stupid
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This. Google "office", aka "Workspace" is free. Open Chrome browser, click on Google Apps icon on top right, choose Docs, or Sheets, or Slides, etc. Anymore it is as ubiquitous as M$ Office in the workplace, and moreso in startups & education fields.
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01-22-2021, 01:14 PM | #21 | |
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There isn't a snowballs chance in hell your using Google's office suite for complex Excel tasks or creating a PPT for a presentation. Open Office isn't much better. |
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01-22-2021, 01:19 PM | #22 | |
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01-22-2021, 02:19 PM | #23 |
Politically Incorrect
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I've never used Enterprise version so I won't comment but I'm guessing it's more like Office than Sun's OpenOffice or Googles free stuff.
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01-22-2021, 02:21 PM | #24 |
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Agreed, Google shared docs are excellent for collaborating remotely on excel and ppt. They aren't a replacement for M$ though. I always have to convert final copy of Google shared docs to M$ docs.
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01-22-2021, 02:22 PM | #25 |
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Interesting. Any guess on what the security is like on G enterprise? How does it make sense to run Windows but not Office in terms of cost, security, and administration?
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01-22-2021, 02:33 PM | #26 | |
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For government contracts, there's all kinds of compliance issues so special negotiations are required with Google to make sure instances stay on-shore, aren't accessible by foreign nationals, and comply with certain government security requirements like FISMA, GARM, and ITAR. Like I said, I know a lot of Fortune 100 companies are switching, including mine. |
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01-22-2021, 02:36 PM | #27 | |
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The cost differential is just huge. A Chromebook you could literally throw away and replace if it broke. Windows PC's are 10x more costly to support, secure, and admin. |
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01-22-2021, 02:43 PM | #28 | |
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01-22-2021, 02:45 PM | #29 |
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01-22-2021, 02:47 PM | #30 | |
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