Why is Microsoft allowed to have a monopoly on office suite software?

Why is Microsoft allowed to have a monopoly on office suite software?

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>what is open office

Because it's the only actual good one.

>allowed

Allowed by who? What or whom do you propose stop the monopoly?

the government and the UN

make it free except for corporations and llcs

Go on kid, make a better alternative nobody's going to stop you.....

You fucking socialists will be slaughtered wholesale very soon. I cannot wait for the day. Killing commies doesn't even violate the NAP.

already using libre office which is completely free

You already have free options. You don't want or support that though.

>What is LibreOffice

Bullshit.

For what reason do you need office except for work or school, in which both situations if you work/study at somewhere half decent you get it for free
>what is office365
>what is microsoft imagine

>what is WPS

Fucking commie scum. Kill yourself as soon as possible.

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Because you faggots who refuse to learn and use libreoffice for literally meme reasons let them.
Because IT teachers let them. Because companies let them.

its not like photoshop vs gimp case where photoshop is much better (gimp is a piece of shit by design)

libreoffice lets you export to msoffice extensions and its doing probably 80% of what msoffice can do

what's the problem when you can just torrent it for free?

online activation basically.
i know you have keygens that let you crack with phone code or someshit but its a fucking trojan

Yeah, and at least LibreOffice has a much more classic design instead of having that shitty ass ribbon.

I personally don't have a problem with GIMP, honestly, but than again, I'm not a professional artist.

Gimp is great. I haven't used Adobe software in a decade and I recommend other people do the same. They don't even sell software anymore.

Beats me, but honestly what exactly is stopping you from getting it with the latest updates?

see
Capitalist dogs wont give it away.

I work in the Big 4 and we use excel not libreoffice.

Eh, the last thing it was useful for me for was setting up Satellaview Zelda games on my laptop, since the instructions come in docx format.

So basically it's useful for when readmes come in an Office format.

I only have that shit on my phone because LibreOffice Mobile doesn't let you create new documents and Microsoft Office Mobile is fucking account-based.

Yeah the only thing from Adobe I still have installed is Flash Player because things like Shumway and Gnash weren't complete enough for me and these days I don't even really need the Flash Player anymore I just keep it for rewatching old animations and playing old games I guess.

>be college fag
>do all homework in libre office
>save files as .docx before submitting
>nobody knows the difference

if you paid for microsoft office you are literally retarded

Crazy how employers get to dictate what you use. It's almost like you just work there. This doesn't make MS Office a monopoly.

>not pirating it

shiggy diggy do shit

>I want it free, but from capitalist sources
This is why nobody takes commies seriously anymore.

The only time they were taken seriously was when they were being physically removed as they should be.

Kill the commies.

They're not. Dominating the market and having a close to 100% share isn't the same as having monopoly.

Good job on that book report, Billy

Haha! M$ Office was always behind OpenOffice.
Trust the Document Foundation and use LibreOffice dude.

So why is OpenOffice deprecated?

The same reason why Texas Instruments graphing calculators tend to be the only allowed one in certain academic situations. Marketing. Now that it's ubiquitous everyone is too lazy to change.

Use tex you faggot.

The jews at oracle bought openoffice and the devs said fuck that and forked it. OpenOffice is pretty much dead now while LibreOffice is thriving.

>BUH BUH IT WORKS AND I CANT AFFORD IT
>IT SHOULD JUST BE GIVEN TO ME!!! CAUJSE IT MAKES ME FEEL BAD WHEN PEOPLE HAVE THINGS I DONT!!!!!!

Socialism is cancer.

Well after Oracle bought Sun it was announced they were killing off OpenOffice. This led to the creation of LibreOffice and the formation of The Document Foundation. Afterwards Oracle sold OpenOffice to Apache but I think The Document Foundation has given more of a shit about LibreOffice development than Apache has given to OpenOffice development.

Google docs.

>not getting free Office 365 as student

Poor life choices m8

The Document Foundation did a great job with Libre Office, it's finally on par with Microsoft Office 2003!

I bet you eat more chicken mcnuggets in one month than Office would cost you, you fucking fatso

And that's a bad thing? Dude, Office has sucked since 2007. I was once in class and this guy had out a Windows 7 laptop but he was still using Office 2003!

The ribbon is a joke. And I bet they only made the docx format because of their crappy attempts at DRM.

The ribbon is fine for anyone that isn't diagnosed with crippling autism

>open office
cuck

>And I bet they only made the docx format because of their crappy attempts at DRM.
It's not like docx and other x formats have advantages...

The worst part is Office365 afaik you even have Office on a web browser it's gross, even Adobe only has monthly subscriptions

finally someone mentions the true solution
+1 for libre

What is this even supposed to mean?

>$70 a year for 5 installs
>always updated
>1TB of storage for important files you need on multiple computers

What's the issue?
>m-muh botnet
Fuck off

>what is WPS Office

Offline usage is now impossible, user security is now removed to the benefit of company profit security and botnet

Honestly?

LibreOffice is a shitty Office alternative that's worth every cent.

The monopoly was created by the government by using MS office and requiring it in schools

LibreOffice also has relatively more vulnerabilities compared to Office (walled garden aside)

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MS Office is actually good though.

libre office and open whatnot are fine and anyone who disagrees is a paid marketer

Things like libreoffice and openoffice are complete shit because no one else uses them. MS Office has the benefit of being well established, and the alternatives will never be able to achieve that.

I remember hearing one user say that his resume formatting was being fucked due to the differences between libre and MS Word, and that it probably cost him job interviews before he discovered it.

they don't there are tons of other office suites out there

The business world will be running on Microsoft for the foreseeable future. If you want on that train, then conformity is unfortunately a fact of life.

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Google Docs is literally free.

Billy is rich enough, just pirate that shit

Try FreeOffice and saveas files in word format so bill can deal with the file. Some better features and some missing. Still, it's free and I can tell b to f'off.

You don't know what a monopoly is

its not a monopoly if you have other choices

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Or else your not a dick and you convert your resume to pdf format to avoid that kind of shit to happen.

The retard deserved it for not exporting it as a PDF file before sending it in. What the fuck did he expect to happen?

>not sending your CV in pdf format
who would like to hire a moron?

i think all the offices do it cause all the other offices do it.

they probably do it cause their free shit has let them down a few times when it came time to open some attachment.

text and spreadsheet files can easily work between office suites but powerpoints just never play nice.

>not being in university where you get that shit for free
Besides that there's google docs and libre office. Even though libre office is so much shittier compared to MS office. This is coming from someone who's used it for about 3 or so years.

>what is open office
Unusable garbage for $800, Alex

>his school doesn't give the full office suite to students for free

LibreOffice should just create their own ribbons desu. It just scares normies.

What exactly did he discover that cost him interviews? The different file type or the nature of loading openoffice docs in word turned it into an unformatted shithole?

I work in the Big 4 and we use white toilet paper instead of the grey one crazy huh

>need to print single form
>only displays properly in MS Word
I had to pirate it.

DESU, the only formatting problems I've had with Libre to MS so far has been with PowerPoint. Word displayed my documents fine.

Yeah, my mom loves WordPerfect and hates Microsoft Word but uses Microsoft Word instead because of this.

I personally use LibreOffice but for a while I grew up on WordPerfect because of my mom.

E M A C S

O R G - M O D E

undergrated toast

Is libre office any good for writing stories and converting them to PDFs?

>Advocating being in university forever and not being an actual productive adult human.

Academia cucks are cancer of the worst kind.

>what is Softmaker

They don't.
Also pic related.

Yes. It has had PDF export built in since forever.

I wouldnt mind to pay 20 bucks for it.

>Office 2012
>License expired but since it was business license I can get it activated for free on any machine
>PC number 17 running completely legal office 2012
Comfy

>software X is shit because it doesn't work well with a proprietary software Y's standard
This is like saying an apple tree sucks because it doesn't grow oranges. Or even better, like saying your software is better because only it can open your formatting. This isn't a real argument. There's nothing significant doc/x format can do that a FOSS one can't.

Literally >>>/reddit/.

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Be safe, citizen.

>don't know what a monopoly is
holy shit that explain why OP is too stupid to torrent that shit or just get the poorfag version aka libre office/openoffice

Because LibreOffice is garbage, and Google Docs has only basic functionalities.

Stuck with it at work.. Work on a print shop so we forced to use what everyone else does so things are formatted and print correctly

Why would anyone buy Home & Student when it doesn't have OneNote or Outlook?