With Microsoft Dumping MS Office, Consider LibreOffice for Your PC Office Suite

Re:With Microsoft Dumping MS Office, Consider LibreOffice fo... by kasperni on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:33PM (#20689927)

> For example, Office 2010 support life comes to an end on Oct. 13, 2020. There will be no extended support unit, ala Windows 7, for it. When it's done, it's done.

I don't see a problem with this, it came out in 2010. They have send out free updates for it for 10 years. That is above and beyond in my book.

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Re:With Microsoft Dumping MS Office, Consider LibreOffice fo... by russdpale on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:50PM (#20690088)

I think its bullshit. Many businesses will continue to run this software for a long ass time and they shouldn't be forced to upgrade. Many universities have equipment on window 98 or older, and many companies have computers still running office 2003 for various reasons.

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Re:With Microsoft Dumping MS Office, Consider LibreOffice fo... by cbsks on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:11PM (#20690291)

You aren’t forced to upgrade, you just won’t get support from Microsoft. The support lifecycle for every Microsoft product is here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hub/4095338/microsoft-li...

If you need to run software for longer than it is supported then you need to either need to negotiate a longer support contract, or be willing to live without support. I don’t think there is anything unreasonable about that.

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Re:With Microsoft Dumping MS Office, Consider LibreOffice fo... by russdpale on Thursday August 15, 2019 @03:04PM (#20708533)

See, I think that is the wrong way of thinking about it. It gives the software manufacturer an asymmetrical advantage over the customer that I don't believe is fair.

If the demand for the product is still there, the software manufacturer should be forced to support it with at least basic security upgrades. We are just asking to build an entire infrastructure on a shaky foundation because of some ridiculous dogmatic ideology to technological progress. Progress is great, but maintaining is what makes the world go around, just check out the salary of an experienced COBOL programmer.

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Re:With Microsoft Dumping MS Office, Consider LibreOffice fo... by skinnymuch on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:05PM (#20690240)

If support is ending, how is that forcing upgrades?

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