https://www.libreoffice.org/ for anyone who wants microsoft to stop messing with their office apps.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2025
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There is also only office which has better compatibility with MSOffice file types
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I second this. There's a little bit of a learning curve on some of the functionality, but it's not bad at all. And most of the functionality is very easy to find. I moved over to Libre Office several years ago and it's been great.
Office would have a learning curve too if you hadn’t been using it since you were a child.
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I suppose this means Microsoft will not count Word doc file sizes against users' cloud storage quotas, right? Right??
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It'll be like Google: everything goes in, nothing comes out unless you jump through difficult hoops, price continually goes up.
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This is certainly about making sure your files are safe and definitely not about stealing your data for training AI. /s
Don't let Murdersoft steal your data. Don't contribute to their corruption or genocide assistance.
Step 1: https://fedoraproject.org/
Step 2: https://www.libreoffice.org/
Thanks, going to try out LibreOffice. Does it has same (or similar) functions as Word itself?
It's designed to be very similar. If you are already familiar with Word, you should feel right at home.
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Let's say this huge breach of security and privacy is okay.
How are Microsoft ensuring these sensitive documents are not being transferred via or stored on servers located in hostile countries with lax data laws (such as foreign nations like the USA?).
Microsoft has already said it doesn't matter where your data is stored, it isn't safe from the United States.
But you can change this behaviour in settings, it's just the default for now.
So, if you don't trust Microsoft to handle your documents, but still somehow use MS Word and OneDrive, for the moment you can still stop it from saving your Word documents to their servers.
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tip: do not write about the revolution, short stories, hatred of capitalism, your suicide plans, or your teenage angst and erotic anthropomorphic horse fan fiction.
tip: Only write about the revolution, short stories about your hatred of capitalism, your suicide plans, your teenage angst, and erotic anthropomorphic horse fan fiction.
For everything else, use LibreOffice.
directions unclear, now I’m directing a netflix special on sexy horse guerrillas.
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"Fuck you, Microsoft." -Everyone, at all times
Even if you're not ready to come to Linux, you're definitely ready to switch to LibreOffice. I dare you to try it.
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To anyone thinking "LibreOffice still has issues", here's the LibreOffice donation page to help them fix it up and be rid of MS Office forever.
Thank you to the skilled developers who bailed on OpenOffice when the shit stain company Oracle bought Sun, and formed LibreOffice.
I can only hope there will always be digital freedom fighters on the side of good.
I've donated to LibreOffice, and you should too, if you use their suite.
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You can turn it off. Opt-out is still bullshit.
you can turn it off (for now)
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How will this work for (for example) cibersecurity companies that have reports full of client's vulnerabilities and can't have them hosted in third parties?
I would guess we're on the fuck around part and your question will be answered on the find out part
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This feature doesn't even work.
So many times I'll save a word doc, attach it to outlook, and it'll silently attach an older version of the word doc.
Word says its up to date, one drive says its up to date, but outlook still gets an old version.
It takes hours to resolve. Everything Microsoft wastes so much of my time.
Libre office does the job for me! Auto save on cloud sucks. At least you can turn it off! For now.
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this is their patch for the whole disk data loss debacle
This might be when I finally jump ship and go to Linux. I should do Mint, right?
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Idiots will still not know where anything is saved. Catering to the technologically illiterate has made society way more illiterate.
If you mind that Word documents are stored in the cloud by default, you need to modify the default setting
...or just use some other app for your private documents and Word only for work-related stuff or such. I use Word/Office at work and have absolutely no issue with all the documentation being saved in the cloud. But for private stuff I would have to think twice if I want this.
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You have to click through to a third save dialogue just to choose “Browse my files…”.
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