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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wish our corporation would get rid of the office365. the 2 FPS video presentation streaming is a joke.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Unless you get comfortable using linux, that's not happening. Microsoft groups so much into the O365 E5 tier that it's legitimately impossible to get a similar business level feature set for even double the price, mainly because win11 & office (word, excel, etc) make up 85% of that license cost on their own. So in order to have the business momentum required to make a software pivot you're going to need cost saving elsewhere to force it to make sense, and Microsoft has cornered the "I'm not a techy, just make it work like my computer at my last job" crowd that will never switch an OS because of their familiarity with Windows.