I work for a company that does 10s of billions in revenue, and the finance departments all use excel as well. Pretty much every giant corporations finance departments use excel.
The article clearly states that this non-profit moved from Google to Microsoft after Google started charging lol
Outlook alternatives are irrelevant when you don’t have your own email address. Microsoft 365 gives your company your corporate email.
Why would you want cloud storage for users in a business? Why would you want multifactor authentication for your users? Are you serious?
Microsoft 365 Business Basic gives you all this:
Plan highlights:
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Identity and access management for up to 300 users
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Web and mobile versions3 of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
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Custom business email (you@yourbusiness.com)
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Chat, call, and video conference with Microsoft Teams
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1 TB of cloud storage per employee
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10+ additional apps for your business needs (including Microsoft Bookings, Planner, and Forms)
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AI chat experience with web grounding, writing assistance, data analysis, and access to agents4
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Automatic spam and malware filtering
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Anytime phone and web support
LibreOffice gives you ………. 1 of those bullet points lol. Not really a like for like replacement is it?
Not “basically” btw - entra is the azure/cloud version of AD. It was renamed.
This article clearly states that this non-profit switched to MS specifically because Google changed their non-profit plans to be paid.
Bit of context:
As such, it is generously removing the ten licenses for Microsoft 365 Business Premium that it previously granted to non-profits. The replacement? "We are transitioning to provide up to 300 licenses of Microsoft 365 Business Basic and discounts of up to 75 percent on many Microsoft 365 offers to nonprofits."
One could argue that 300 free licenses of Business basic is better than 10 free licenses of Business Premium, especially if the non-profit has more than 10 employees.
A business premium nonprofit license is $5.50 per user per month, so to get it back for those 10 users it would cost them $660.
Business basic was $1 per user per month with the previous non-profit discount.
This means that any non-profit with 55 employees would be no worse off now, but any with more than 55 employees will be better off with the updated plan and discounts.
Oh look, another lefty who I have no idea who they are whose head I live rent free in :)
And surprise surprise, they have nothing useful to say and can’t answer a simple question.
What a strange thing to label someone who is regularly called a Nazi by the libs on here lol
Why do you think Apple should let Fortnite back on the App Store?
LibreOffice is not a replacement for M365 though, it’s a replacement for Office. M365 is not just office.
LibreOffice doesn’t give every user 1TB of cloud storage space. It doesn’t give you a company email address and management tools for users. It doesn’t give you 95% of what M365 does.