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Microsoft plans to raise the prices of its office software in Germany – but #LibreOffice comes to the rescue! It also helps to free companies and organisations from vendor lock-in: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/04/06/microsoft-365-price-hike-in-germany-libreoffice-to-the-rescue/
Microsoft 365 price hike in Germany? LibreOffice to the rescue! - The Document Foundation Blog

Microsoft plans to raise the prices of its office software in Germany – and other services – significantly (article in German here). And not just once, but every six months there are to be “price adjustments”. This is of course a problem for many businesses, organisations, schools and local governments that have limited resources. But […]

The Document Foundation Blog
Apr 6, 2023 at 9:23amWeb
Show threadRaymond W GallacherApr 6, 2023

@libreoffice

LibreOffice is excellent. I recommend it.

Show threadFardels BearApr 6, 2023

@libreoffice

Why would you buy bloated, overpriced, office software from #Microsoft when you can have the excellent #LibreOffice? It's easy to convert files if necessary.

Show threadKrita Apr 6, 2023
@libreoffice or yarr the office too you can do that
Show threadJames P.  Apr 6, 2023

@libreoffice I blame inflation for that.

At least with Free Software it won’t be as much of a concern.

Show threadZem 🇪🇹 🇪🇺Apr 10, 2023
@libreoffice it actually goes beyond reason that public institutions (national EU&UN ) still runs msoffice . Your alternative is so much better, and if public institutions wants to spend money on software they should spend our money on you. Keep the great work
Show threadSupergrobiApr 10, 2023
@libreoffice does anybody per chance have numbers on how much money German public institutions are forking over to MS only for Office licenses? One or two digit billions?
Imagine that money was spent only once for a UX overhaul and other development of LibreOffice ...
Show threadLibreOfficeApr 10, 2023
@supergrobi Hi! We overhauled the user interface a couple of years ago (see screenshot) – but do you mean something else?
Show threadSupergrobiApr 10, 2023
@libreoffice With all respect, if you show this to a UX concepter, she'll see lots to improve. I'm not a UX concepter myself, but I work for a company that does it.
Also, last time I gave the Powerpoint replacement a try, it was a nightmare to use...
I totally like LibreOffice, though!
Show threadDillusionApr 10, 2023

@supergrobi

This is actually the UX Style which MS Office uses by default. It's called 'Ribbon' tools.

The reason, you might be confused is, the picture shown here layers several windows above each other, to show the different libre programs. Usualy you only see one of them.

@libreoffice

Show threadRobert NgaluApr 21, 2023
@libreoffice I believe #LibreOffice is a suitable document processing app. It is capable of formating and presenting docs the way user wants or prefers and supports #OpenType features