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Microsoft is introducing ads into a free version of Office, which seemingly only lets users save to OneDrive.

In other news, LibreOffice is also free, doesn't have ads, and lets you save your documents wherever you want. I use it every day for my work. It is available here:

https://www.libreoffice.org/

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Chris Mackay 🇨🇦Feb 24

@neil Apple’s iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, & Keynote) remains free for those with Apple hardware. No ads, no limitations (save where you like), & XML-based file formats (right-click, open package, everything is right there, including text & embedded media — no lock-in).

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David Feb 25

@tantramar @neil It would be nice if Apple made a version of iWork for Windows and sold it. I’d say the same for Linux, but there’s no way it could compete with LibreOffice there.

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Chris Mackay 🇨🇦Feb 25

@freeagent @neil I haven’t tried it, but do the versions of Pages, Numbers, & Keynote on icloud.com work from Windows/Linux? (They don’t work from iOS or iPadOS, but they do from macOS.)

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David

@tantramar @neil I wasn’t aware that there were web app versions of iWork, so I don’t know 😅