Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS...
There is. Compatibility. Ms has had a monopoly on office for decades, and some things still don’t format correctly or functions don’t work as they do in ms office.
For most people, laziness prevails when it just works in ms office.
But also for most people, the amount of ms office they’re leveraging is 100% functional in libreoffice and the like.
OOXML is a public standard—one that MS has problems matching between versions, but Google and OpenOffice based products have only had issues with embedded objects from other MS products.
Even O365 regularly botches line, paragraph, and table formatting compared to the desktop versions. If you really need your formatting to be page-perfect, you should probably be using Scribus, Microsoft Designer, or Adobe InDesign anyways.
There is. Compatibility. Ms has had a monopoly on office for decades, and some things still don’t format correctly or functions don’t work as they do in ms office.
For most people, laziness prevails when it just works in ms office.
But also for most people, the amount of ms office they’re leveraging is 100% functional in libreoffice and the like.
Change is also hard for most people.
OOXML is a public standard—one that MS has problems matching between versions, but Google and OpenOffice based products have only had issues with embedded objects from other MS products.
Classic MS having problems with open standards. I think good OK internet explorer had the same problems through its tenure.
Even O365 regularly botches line, paragraph, and table formatting compared to the desktop versions. If you really need your formatting to be page-perfect, you should probably be using Scribus, Microsoft Designer, or Adobe InDesign anyways.