Office 365

**boybi** · July 29th, 2013 07:54 PM

Should I subscribe to Office 365 for my office? It's P3,499.00 per year for 5 PCs.

The cheapest Office 2013, the Home & Student costs around 11K, good for 1 PC, but it's yours forever.

**jodski** · July 29th, 2013 09:08 PM

Sir,
sa business use hindi pwede gamitin ang home and student... Dapat at least professional edition.

if ever less than 50 units kuhanin mo na lang yung subscription para iwas hassle sa audit.

meron din naman na free alternatives like open office if ok sa iyo...

**xwangbu** · July 29th, 2013 09:21 PM

^LibreOffiice sir.
pwede din googledocs kung ok net connection mo.

**Retz** · July 29th, 2013 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by jodski

Sir,
sa business use hindi pwede gamitin ang home and student... Dapat at least professional edition.

if ever less than 50 units kuhanin mo na lang yung subscription para iwas hassle sa audit.

meron din naman na free alternatives like open office if ok sa iyo...

mahirap din gamitin open office.... may compatibility issues at times.

**boybi** · July 29th, 2013 09:58 PM

I tried those free Office clones before, but there were some incompatibilities. Mahirap pag gumagawa ng report yung staff tapos mali mali ang lalabas na results.

**boybi** · July 29th, 2013 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by jodski

Sir,
sa business use hindi pwede gamitin ang home and student... Dapat at least professional edition.

if ever less than 50 units kuhanin mo na lang yung subscription para iwas hassle sa audit.

meron din naman na free alternatives like open office if ok sa iyo...

Hindi naman lahat ng PC sa office installan ko ng Office. Kasya na yung 5 units na allowed ng Office 365.

**ghosthunter** · July 30th, 2013 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by boybi

I tried those free Office clones before, but there were some incompatibilities. Mahirap pag gumagawa ng report yung staff tapos mali mali ang lalabas na results.

All our office computers are using OPENOFFICE and we do not have compatibility issues. The only problem was the initial move from MS Office to OpenOffice. After that, it was smooth sailing.

**1D4LV** · July 30th, 2013 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by ghosthunter

All our office computers are using OPENOFFICE and we do not have compatibility issues. The only problem was the initial move from MS Office to OpenOffice. After that, it was smooth sailing.

same here. birth pains.. been using it for a year already. wala namang compatibility problems from documents in MS Office.
boybi, ok na din yan..... go for it, kung hindi acceptable and openoffice.

**niky** · July 30th, 2013 11:14 AM

Only compatibility issues I ever had were with a .doc file written on WPS, a Chinese clone/development copy of an obsolete Microsoft product. But those same files actually cause a looping dictionary error MSOffice on our office iMacs... which necessitates some fast and furious key-tapping to close the dialogue box and kill MSOffice at the same time.

After getting used to OpenOffice, I don't even open Word, anymore.

**roninblade** · July 30th, 2013 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by boybi

Should I subscribe to Office 365 for my office? It's P3,499.00 per year for 5 PCs.

The cheapest Office 2013, the Home & Student costs around 11K, good for 1 PC, but it's yours forever.

that's not a bad subscription: P700pa per PC costing you P58.3 per month for each computer.

I tried those free Office clones before, but there were some incompatibilities. Mahirap pag gumagawa ng report yung staff tapos mali mali ang lalabas na results.

Hindi naman lahat ng PC sa office installan ko ng Office. Kasya na yung 5 units na allowed ng Office 365.

but according to your comments, you're only using office apps in those 5 computers. so how can you have incompabilities?

if you make the leap to free software meron talaga incompatibilities at first until you can move all your documents to f/OSS standard files.