I made it through grad school and years of copywriting + journalism + creative direction work using only open source software. The standout for Microsoft is Excel, especially with pivot tables and a lot of crap I needed to deal with financial data and for Adobe with Photoshop when dealing with pre-press stuff like pantone ink colors. For the other 99.9% of work I did, GIMP and Open/Libre Office were at worst adequate, and with very little footprint. Plus, they were much easier to customize and create my own plugins, etc for. And free. And ran on windows / linux / osx / old solaris machines / whatever.
Having a bare bones office suite is alright I guess, if you don't want to spend money, I maybe can see people using google's word processing program, because most people don't do much with word processing anyway, but hell that is just 1 program. Even then though, if you are a graduate student, word's citation features are a must have, so I just can't see any reason why anybody would use google for anything.
If your so against this thread, why do they get so much activity? People like to talk trash about tech, and software.
Of the 29 posts in this thread, 5 are by you and 12 are making fun of you and/or the thread. Does that answer your question?
Gmail for email Sheets for excelling Docs for word processing Hangouts for company meetings Circles to integrate similar departments across different business units Forms for requests The whole shabang.
I get get office for the whole family plus 1TB(actually unlimited) cloud storage for 5 people for 10 bucks a month. Google apps suck.
Office365 comes with 1tb one drive that is unlimited if you ask for it which is worth the 10 bucks by itself. Obviously you also get full blown office that has the desktop and online version.
