For Microsoft? They don't really have a monopoly on anything any more. The closest thing is probably Office, but they don't stop you from using whatever -- people just prefer to standardize on a solution. If it weren't MS it would be WordPerfect or Adobe somethingorother
I fucked with Open Office for a while. It worked fine in 90% of scenarios.
Libreoffice is better. The people working on openoffice ditched it at one point (possibly licencing issues) and continued development on libreoffice.
And you're right. I'd say better than 90%. I've never needed a feature that was only available in office.
In college, the only thing that MS Office had that none of the others had was the ability to track your references. You write your paper, input a source you're using, and then it'll spit out your bibliography in whatever format you want it to. Saved so much time. None of the open source office programs had that. Not sure if they do now, that was a decade ago.
I use Google for a lot of stuff. Not based, I know. But it also works. I also have an office license.
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