Office 2010 support is ending - get current with Office 365 ProPlus Office

Steve C · 17 Oct 2019

Not interested - Office 2010 has all the features I need

Plankton · 17 Oct 2019

I have Office 2016 Pro Plus and the only thing I really use out of it is Outlook and Word. I use Outlook daily and use Word maybe half a dozen times a week. I'm seriously thinking abut dumping Office all together. I already made the switch from Outlook to Thunderbird.....that took some getting used to. I'm using WordPad now instead of Word.

I just can't justify paying for Office 2019 and barely use it....for that kind of money. I sure as heck aint doing a yearly subscription that will double the price of Office in 3 years.

Steve C · 17 Oct 2019

Plankton said:

I have Office 2016 Pro Plus and the only thing I really use out of it is Outlook and Word. I use Outlook daily and use Word maybe half a dozen times a week. I'm seriously thinking abut dumping Office all together. I already made the switch from Outlook to Thunderbird.....that took some getting used to. I'm using WordPad now instead of Word.

I just can't justify paying for Office 2019 and barely use it....for that kind of money. I sure as heck aint doing a yearly subscription that will double the price of Office in 3 years.

I don't want to pay unless I can find a cheap licence. What are the risks of using Office 2010 beyond 2020 especially Outlook 2010 which I use daily for email?

z3r010 · 17 Oct 2019

Steve C said:

I don't want to pay either unless I can find a cheap licence. What are the risks of using Office 2010 beyond 2020 especially Outlook 2010 which I use daily for email?

TBH there is probably little risk as long as you are not opening every random excel spreadsheet that comes to your spam folder, if like me the main thing you use in office is Outlook then eMClient is a drop in replacement and pretty cheap.

Steve C · 17 Oct 2019

z3r010 said:

TBH there is probably little risk as long as you are not opening every random excel spreadsheet that comes to your spam folder, if like me the main thing you use in office is Outlook then eMClient is a drop in replacement and pretty cheap.

I do use Word & Excel but only for simple tasks

z3r010 · 17 Oct 2019

Steve C said:

I do use Word & Excel but only for simple tasks

Libre office is free and more than capable.

jimbo45 · 17 Oct 2019

Hi folks
a cheap license of Office 2019 is all I need (which I have) -- VLOOKUP on EXCEL works just fine -- XLOOKUP might be a slightly interesting feature but this won't be of any problem to seasoned excel users

Can't say the audio stuff in word interests me at a ll -- some free lance "journos" might have a use for it or some secretaries but that's not a feature I think will motivate huge numbers of people to switch.

Powerpoint, Excel and Outlook are my main office applications -- even Word I don't use a huge amount any more and certainly only really use it as a sort of "super text editor". Access was and always will be a total joke -- anybody who even thinks of calling that a sensible database is insulting the word database.

I think these days most people if doing office documents for sharable use / documentation in an office probably would be better off on composing for a company intranet using excellent simple tools like Wordpress etc.

I have used Project 2010 and 2019 -- however that's not in the base Office suite anyway and with some clever macros etc you can use EXCEL instead , however Project does make managing and getting correct resources in right place etc etc a breeze -- good tool if you ever need serious management of large project with loads of time based (and time limited) resources !!.

Publisher --can't say I've ever used it

The classical "Office suite" isn't really needed as such any more but as others have posted if you still need to do those basic things there's still free products such as LibreOffice etc and Thunderbird is a totally reasonable email client (free) that allows multiple accounts (provided you can ever get past the wretched "auto config" stage !!!! - do-able but a bit of poodle-fakery needed).

I think also loads of people are shying away from the ever increasing numbers of subscription stuff with the fragmentation of delivery of services -- e.g disney, apple tv, netflix, amazonprime etc -- there's only a finite source of money and 12 USD there, 15 USD here and so on ends up being serious "muchos pesos" every month if one isn't careful.

Cheers
jimbo

Edwin · 17 Oct 2019

They're not making any money supporting old software. They wanna sell new stuff. Period!

jimbo45 · 17 Oct 2019

Edwin said:

They're not making any money supporting old software. They wanna sell new stuff. Period!

Hi there
I think you mean "lease" so they can collect money in perpetutity -- the fact that Office 2010 still works for probably 99% of what typical people use Office for shows that decent software can still work for years and years -- is it around 12 years when the beta of Office 2010 came out (they are always release before the actual year .

Of course if people aren't buying new products or services that's potential revenue lost after a "one time gain" when the initial purchase is made.

Soak up money every month --that's the name of the game --but guess what --here's one guy who is not buying into that method -- If windows services also goes that way --well there are other optopns available -- FREE such as the infinitely configurable arch linux etc etc.

cheers
jimbo
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