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I've gone all in on Microsoft for my company (high Office usage) with O365, Azure and friends and I'm regretting this decision.

OneDrive for Business is almost unusable on Windows 10. The web apps are incredibly slow. Teams is very inconsistent for users between desktop and mobile usage. It's a mess.

I'm planning on switching to Amazon next year. I hope I can find an alternative to the Office situation (maybe offline licenses).

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I have found a Dropbox to be more reliable at file sync than OneDrive, especially if you have many, many small files. Then again, the pricing is so far off between the two that I can’t justify Dropbox anymore and just put up with the horrible OneDrive performance. Does anyone have any better alternatives?

Luckily Microsoft still sells offline licenses for Office 2019. There are several features missing that are exclusively tied to the Office 365 subscription, but overall it’s still the same Office productivity suite you would expect. Here’s to hoping they keep doing that in the future and don’t pull an Adobe…

Depending upon your needs then perhaps Libre Office, or the WordPerfect Office suite would do?

If I were offering a free (as in price) alternative to MS Office, I'd first recommend WPS Office over LibreOffice, even though it's closed-source. It has a much better interface out of the box. But I'd use something to block it from phoning home to its probably Chinese government-beholden servers, like OpenSnitch for Linux* or LuLu for macOS.

(*) https://github.com/gustavo-iniguez-goya/opensnitch

If I may, in my experience Softmaker is not bad at all (still closed source and Commercial, but affordable), LibreOffice simply does not fit, for very light use LibreOffice is fine, but still has - here and there - too many "quirks".

My apologies, I meant ONLYOFFICE, not WPS Office. I got them mixed up. 'ONLYOFFICE' is FOSS and the one I meant to recommend!

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