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What office productivity suite do you use?

"Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has announced that the government has plans to standardise open formats of office suite software to cut costs and break the 'oligopoly' of IT suppliers.

He said that Microsoft Office costs the UK government significant amounts every year.
By abandoning Microsoft software, ministers could be looking at saving tens of millions of pounds a year.

It has been reported that £200m has been spent since 2010 on Microsoft Office alone by the public sector."

http://www.cbronline.com/news/tech/software/operatingsystems/uk-government-will-ditch-microsoft-office-in-favour-of-open-source-4168583

The open source debate has been going on for years. I'm surprised that it's taken so long for government to shake up its IT procurement process.

I guess one of the reasons is that it was easier to stay than it is to change.

What office productivity suite do you use?

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    We use Office 365 as you can have up to 5 users per licence.
  • We have an old computer and Office was in the software package that was purchased with it. Whatever you change to will still presumably cost much the same unless you have bulk purchasing power I think?

    Is this scenario a case of where the government treads we are doomed to follow?

  • I have been using open office for years. Its free, compatible with all Microsoft formats and for a 1 minute download you get everything MS office offers and more.

    The biggest single feature that makes the word processing software better for me is the ability to very simply save documents as a PDF. These look infinitely more professional when a client opens one up than a normal word document in my opinion.

  • I agree - switched to Open Office a few years back after MS Office got too bloated for me .
    You won't get a better price ...... About time the govt. recouped some of that money they claimed on expenses !

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