Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by ymolodtsov on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:06AM
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There was a moment when they adopted a new format in DOCX thought.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by TeMPOraL on Monday December 19, 2022 @05:03AM
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For authoring you can probably side-step that with a converter, unless you're one of those phantom people who use any but the most basic Word features.
(I don't know who those phantom people are. I'd love to meet them and learn from them. Everyone I know cares so little about the quality of the document itself they hardly use anything beyond immediate-mode font and paragraph styling...)
I pay for an Office365 subscription so I can have it on Mac, but on my Windows PC I use Office 2010, which I paid for when it was current. It is lightning fast compared to the current release of Office, and has all the features I could ever want.
The company I worked for '05-'12 used Office 2003 that whole time. It was fine!