Microsoft Increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 License Prices

Re:Microsoft Increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 License ... by mrbluecoat on Monday December 08, 2025 @09:41AM (#46192743)

Switched to the free OnlyOffice a year ago and never looked back: https://www.onlyoffice.com/desktop

https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE

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Re:Microsoft Increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 License ... by AnonHP on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:43AM (#46194461)

Wow, I hadn’t heard about this before. I like that it’s FOSS with AGPL 3. The OnlyOffice screenshots of the spreadsheet application look beautiful (compared to the ugly LibreOffice Calc ones). It says that it works with ODS files (which LibreOffice Calc uses).

Any gotchas to be aware of with OnlyOffice?

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Re:Microsoft Increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 License ... by baal80spam on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:19PM (#46197781)

https://www.softmaker.com/en/products/softmaker-office is a thing as well, and I prefer it to Only Office. The maker is German.

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Re:Microsoft Increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 License ... by k8sToGo on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:21PM (#46197806)

It's a bit slower performance wise

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Re:Microsoft Increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 License ... by hex-m on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:27AM (#46204202)

It can't handle OpenDocument files (odt, odp, ods) well. Only a one-way import is supported. https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/docs/userguides/document_e...

There are parts that are not released under a Free Software license but that's unclear from their marketing-communication. #openWashing

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Re:Microsoft Increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 License ... by zerofor_conduct on Monday December 08, 2025 @07:11PM (#46199563)

here is a (somewhat biased) comparison between OnlyOffice and Collabora Online

https://www.collaboraonline.com/comparing-collabora-with-onl...

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Re:Microsoft Increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 License ... by semyonsh on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @02:59AM (#46202425)

"Somewhat biased" is a gross understatement here, holy crap.

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Re:Microsoft Increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 License ... by neop1x on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @11:22AM (#46206799)

Calligra (KDE Office Suite) is also pretty interesting but currently Linux-only https://calligra.org/

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