Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.

"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".

You're welcome. Please boost for others.

@timixretroplays

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It's compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organization.

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@vet_ingenting @timixretroplays

There's a reason people aren't using Libre Office. Lots of reasons actually, but one really big one in that it lags so slowly even on high end machines that it's actually painful to use.

@rastilin @vet_ingenting @timixretroplays
And how many years ago was that? It is perfectly useable on my 12 year old Linux Computer.....Oh, so you use Windows?...
I wonder if that is the reason.
By the way, I worked in IT support for over 20 years before I retired in 2018.
As for speed, O365 online is dead slow on my 150M fibre connection.

@wyliecoyoteuk @vet_ingenting @timixretroplays

I think a word processor that wants to beat out Microsoft Word should work well in Windows and Linux.

@rastilin @vet_ingenting @timixretroplays I was just thinking that Windows may be the cause.
I no longer have access to any Windows machines, so whether it is poorer programming, poor OS support or MS intervention, I couldn't say.

@wyliecoyoteuk @vet_ingenting @timixretroplays

I'm confident it's not the machine, as it doesn't have any problems otherwise. From what I remember, and this was a while ago, my main issue was that that some (but not most) clicks didn't register the first time among other things. Which doesn't make it unusable, but does make it incredibly annoying very quickly.

For comparison on the day to day I use Microsoft Office 2007, which seems to respond instantly.

Now did I use OpenOffice or LibreOffice, now I can't recall? I should try LibreOffice just to be 100% certain.

@rastilin @vet_ingenting @timixretroplays
Libre office is the most up to date.
Openoffice is pretty moribund from what I can see.