> I kinda wishes businesses would slowly move off microsoft to other solutions but yeah...
Actually Microsoft Word (not necessarily the most recent versions, also 97) is a nice piece of software that most of the time just works and after a bit of configuration doesn't get in your way. It's a great solution for short-to medium documents allowing you to get the work done. In theory, LO Writer should be the same or better, and in some aspect certainly is, but there are several little things that make it simply more pleasant to use Word.
Outlook, on the other hand, is a steaming heap of headache with bugs dating back years, and new ones added regularly.
Seemingly at random, using wrong Exchange credentials for an account? Known issue since 2010. Hits one of my clients so often I have a script to rebuild their credentials store.
Large mailboxes cached locally randomly corrupt? Known issue for forever, but seemingly happens less often if the OST and PST are stored in a really short path (like C:\Outlook).
Most recently the "new and on by default" setting of "Store my Outlook settings in the cloud" impacts random users, repeatedly disabling "Save sent items", despite not having a Microsoft account on the system, and none of the other users of the Exchange mailbox turning off Save sent items. It just syncs it with nothing and picks the stupidest options.
Actually Microsoft Word (not necessarily the most recent versions, also 97) is a nice piece of software that most of the time just works and after a bit of configuration doesn't get in your way. It's a great solution for short-to medium documents allowing you to get the work done. In theory, LO Writer should be the same or better, and in some aspect certainly is, but there are several little things that make it simply more pleasant to use Word.