Besides cloud tools, why would you want to use Microsoft Office?
Besides cloud tools, why would you want to use Microsoft Office?
I personally rarely use cloud services at all. Besides just uploading files to the cloud, why should I pick Microsoft Office over free tools like Apache OpenOffice?
The only way I can think of is that your wallet may be easier to carry around, and easier to tell telephone marketers no since you now have less money. Ok, there is another one (if you choose this argument to counts) - everybody else use it and knows their way around in the menus (in cases where you are in a stuation where you must help a friend navigate through the menus). Oh yes - when I'm thinking of it, there is another one still (this is from work). Think about the good relief after spending a whole day with helpdesk because MS Office suddenly have decided you run an unauthorised copy of the program. So yes, it have some good moments too. There is still another thing after thinking of it. See - think of a situation where...
The only way I can think of is that your wallet might be easier to carry around and you might get more out of the phone calls because now you have less money. OK, here is another point (if you want to use it): everyone else uses it and knows how to use the menus when they need help from a friend in situations where that's necessary. Oh right - when I thought about this there was one more thing from work. Think about how much relief you get after spending all day at the helpdesk because Microsoft decided your copy is unauthorized. So yes, there are some good moments too. There is still another point to think of. See - if someone asks you to make a document that needs formulas (things like roots and fractions) guess what happens? You can't do it without text. You have to use plain text format, just like when you put a formula in a forum that doesn't support the fancy math symbols. And why is that? Because the old Microsoft didn't include a way to edit formulas inside their suite of programs (what if you wanted to show the formulas used on a separate sheet?). So yes - you don't need to spend time learning how to make a formula look nice in a graphic way because you can't do it. But for home use, you can certainly buy this as an extra app thing (in a business, you probably won't have options to install more apps than what that company decides). If you are using Open Office or Libre Office, there is a formula editor included inside. It works kind of like LaTeX. Hope this helps 😎
You might still be right, but I don't know if most regular home users get access to it here in Linux. At my job, we have the "pro version" (not sure exactly how that translates), and I can't insert formulas unless my company pays for some extra stuff on top of that.