Can someone explain please ...

[er-minio]

My suggestion is that: if you use the MS package properly, it works, and the cost is not too much -> continue this way. Easier, lowest friction option.

Otherwise LibreOffice or the other OpenSource alternatives work more than ok. But you might be introducing some (small) issues here and there, depending on the user's expertise, this has to be considered.

Good luck.

 

[sparkplug]

Another Libre Office user here (yes it works on my ancient Intel Macs as well as my M chip)

Outlook can be replaced by any number of email clients. Thunderbird works well (made by the FireFox guys) but there will be others I'm sure (such as Apple's Mail I guess)

 

[Skippy]

Another Libre Office user here (yes it works on my ancient Intel Macs as well as my M chip)

Outlook can be replaced by any number of email clients. Thunderbird works well (made by the FireFox guys) but there will be others I'm sure (such as Apple's Mail I guess)

Thank you, I'll take a look.

 

[Mzokk]

You can still use outlook without a subscription with a hotmail account. You have access to cut down versions of this lot.


Because its web based it doesn't matter what you run it on. I'm currently doing this on a machine running Linux Mint. While cut down, they will probably do all that you need. I have a Windows 11 machine with Office Professional Plus 2016 and now that I'm retired I don't dip into it much unless I have reason to need some complicated data manipulation in excel. I also use LibreOffice predominantly now that my main machine is Linux based.

Here is the brilliant Christopher Barnatt going through the pro's and con's of various open source alternatives to MS Office.

 

[er-minio]

I have to use Outlook (Mac) for work.
I do not understand people who will willingly use Outlook, unless forced by their work IT department/policies.

Apart from that: Apple's Mail app (that I used faithfully for almost couple of decades) is a piece of shit too, if we have to be really honest.

I've been using Spark for quite a few years now, and it works extremely well (free version) and it's handy especially if you have multiple accounts across multiple devices (I do).
Yes, they do centralise part of your data, it might be an issue for some. Not for me at present.

 

[sparkplug]

I've been using Spark for a good long while now.

My only real gripes with it are:

1. They've started getting a bit pushier about moving you to a paid version. Not to the point where it's intolerable, but just a bit more than they used to.
2. The client only keeps emails going back (I think) 1 year - so if you want to search for something older then you have to go onto webmail on your server which is a bit of a faff.

Otherwise it's been good.

Yes, Outlook both on my work PC and my work phone - utterly hateful experience. Not by choice, but by necessity.

 

[er-minio]

Agreed

 

[EVskiy]

You lot are un-peel-ievable sometimes...

Skippy was just after some in-cider information and all he got back was a bunch of apple-awling puns.

It's not some comedy gala, I think you should all apple-ogise.