Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

Microsoft Office 2016 is an industry-standard and it is easier to use.

Office is by far the most compatible of all the options we looked at and it integrates with Exchange email servers really well, so its an easy choice for us.

I've used WordPerfect and Office over the years. WordPerfect has a lot of nice features, but recently Office has incorporated most of them. The main reason why my company went with Office is due to the file format. Office files are more widely accepted as the standard and therefore we don't have to use any conversion tools like we had to with WordPerfect.

We did not evaluate other products. The company already had an enterprise license with Microsoft for the Office Suite, and we were able to get a license and installation of our product by using our company email address. The other option was using free tools, which I know from experience are quite horrible.

Office 2010 is no longer supported, so this was no longer an option, we had to upgrade. Also the Office 2010 has several limits that restricted us. Office 2019 does not support updates over WSUS, so it does create an extra administrative cost compared to Office 2016. Their differences are not so big to justify the upgrade and extra cost. Also the maintenance period of Office 2019 is exactly the same as this of Office 2016 (epic fail there Microsoft).

We have always used Microsoft Office products, beginning with the older versions, but we did try a brief evaluation of OpenOffice from Apache. Even though that open source software is free, it's got certain limitations and a different functionality that was missing from Office2016, so we decided not to pursue that path.

We use Microsoft Office 2016 because at the time it was the best tool for us, but now with full attention to cloud products, we may be thinking of migrating our solution to a cloud service.

OpenOffice has been the only product that is capable so certain tasks, but doesn't compare to vast capabilities of Office. Haven't found a suitable replacement, Microsoft Office is the prime software for getting work done.

For certain situations there is a benefit to the "standalone" package of Office 2106, vs. a subscription-based product like Office 365. Especially in the case where there are shared computers, or computers that are used as a kiosk, Microsoft Office 2016 would be one of the few options to use in order to run the Office suite. In these situations, there may not be a need for a subscription-based product.

LibreOffice is a free software suite that fills some holes left in Microsoft Office, e.g., a "Draw" program that allows for easy creation of charts & diagrams. LibreOffice will save files in Microsoft formats, but sometimes the formatting is off when opened in Microsoft's suite; this is always improving. Otherwise, Microsoft Office 2016 sets the standards, and others seem to follow.

Google G-Suite is great for the current direction collaboration and document creation / management is moving. It is not yet as widely used, and not all our clients would have the tools to open a Google Docs document, for example; I suspect it might also give a less formal impression than sending a Word doc. (I also suspect this will change over the next decade or so.) Some of the applications have fewer tools than the Office equivalents. Depending on your needs, this could be a plus or a minus.

We switched from Outlook to Canary Mail for Mac about two months ago and our experiences have been quite positive. The one big feature we enjoy that wasn't an option on Microsoft Office 2016 is read receipt email tracking. This feature allows us to know when a client has read an email, which is an extremely useful tool.

Microsoft Office is more powerful than all its competitors. It is also perhaps most expensive. However its feature set is vast: much higher than other similar products. The other benefit is that it is very popular in the industry. It is used by many of our clients as well.

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Microsoft Office 2016 is more robust and feature-packed that Google's suite of software. However, I find that Drive and Google's online software suite is easier to use for collaborative projects and quick notes.

On specific software within the different suites, Microsoft Powerpoint is FAR SUPERIOR to Google Slides in every way.

We selected Microsoft Office 2016 due to its ease of use. It is also compatible with our client, Microsoft Operating systems. The common user interface across all the applications in Microsoft Office 2016 makes it easy (and familiar) to perform everyday tasks. It is also very familiar to our existing users who have used previous versions of the Microsoft Office Suite, and so onboarding is straightforward.

The Microsoft Office Suite not only offers much more tools and resources if comparing the main apps like Word/Docs, Excel/Sheets, Powerpoint/Slides, but it also can give you more power and options when taking notes through OneNote (against Keep), communication is easy through Skype, and Outlook has great mail management options over Gmail, and in my opinion the interface is more friendly also.

MS Office 2016 offers far more features than its alternatives. The ability to write complex scripts using VBA in MS Excel and MS Access can increase work productivity manyfold. Other MS Office 2016 like products don't offer such features.

MS Office 2016 offers cloud storage in the form of One Drive making it easier to share your work across multiple organisations. If you opt for other MS Office-like products and want to store your documents in the cloud, you'll have to piece together your own system.

Microsoft Office 2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote) does not match up to a live, collaborative platform such as Google documents, Google Sheets, or Google Slides.

While OpenOffice is nice for a free word processing application, Office 2016 has more features and is more user-friendly to use and update. We have an educational license that can be used with an online portal as well, whereas Open Office is free but is limited in what we can do with it.

Microsoft Office has more flexibility and functionality than OpenOffice. OpenOffice isn't able to translate documents from other programs as easily and has more limitations in keystroke options for editing documents. OpenOffice is free, which can be a factor for some companies, but their are limitations that come with that. The tutorials and training offered through Microsoft are also a big benefit compared to OpenOffice.

We haven't paid for similar programs, but we use Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides as an alternative and probably use Google more. We still chose though to use Microsoft Office 2016 as it is a program that is familiar, and Google Suite doesn't have all the same advanced capabilities.

Microsoft Office has all the features of software like G Suite or Apple's slate of word-editing software. It takes all the positives about these two platforms and then has even more features than either of them to make office work ridiculously easy. G Suite requires an internet connection to work, and Apple's suite is just too complicated to use.

While the other products are fine in and of themselves (particularly LibreOffice) they lack the polish, cohesion, and ubiquitous nature of Microsoft Office, specifically the appearance of Office 2016. Each Office application makes common tasks far easier for the common user where it's open-source alternatives may require various plug-ins to be installed and configured, placing them out of reach for the average user. Formatting of documents used to be an issue, but the open-source alternatives, to their credit have come a LONG way in working with Office formats. The other things however still place Office on top.

I've been using the various incarnations of Microsoft Office for about 20 years now (maybe longer) -- prior to that, we used WordPerfect and WordPerfect Graphics. We probably used Lotus 123 for our spreadsheet software, but can't remember if that was just at home or what we used at the office. At home, my husband runs a Linux machine and uses Open Office, which, as I mentioned previously, is the kind of software package that could do just fine for casual users.