Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apache OpenOffice	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Apache OpenOffice is a free open source office suite that includes six applications: Writer (word processor), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (diagramming and graphics), Base (database), and Math (formulas).	N/A
Microsoft 365	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is a Microsoft Cloud subscription service that includes Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access). The software can be installed across multiple devices and ensures that users always have the most up-to-date version of the included Office applications.	$5 Per User Per Month

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	Apache OpenOffice	Microsoft 365
Considered Both Products	Apache Zachariah King Editor at Debtfree Magazine (Financial Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Apache OpenOffice They are very compatible and very similar overall. If you can use the one, you can use the other. Layouts are also not too dissimilar. So, transitioning from one or the other will not be a problem. Ultimately, pricing may be your deciding factor, not functionality, which is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apache OpenOffice Microsoft Office 2016 required licenses which incurred a cost. Upgrade to Office 2019 or higher is also costly. In terms of functionality, the products are both equally capable, with OpenOffice having a slightly less polished user interface. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hecox Business Owner in Marketing at Lucky Whisker LLC (Online Media, 1-10 employees) Chose Apache OpenOffice OpenOffice is great, free, and easy to use. I enjoy some of this other software, and use Google Drive (and applications) frequently, yet I still find daily use for OpenOffice. Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Bowman Environmental Scientist in Engineering at HMB Professional Engineers, Inc. (Civil Engineering, 51-200 employees) Chose Apache OpenOffice The big benefits that OpenOffice gives us is the flexibility, the cost, and the ease of licensing. We do have some Office users, and we keep licenses for them. We looked at Office 365, and that was a good way to work for some people, but the requirement to be constantly … Incentivized Helpful? Liz Wade Photographer at Liz Wade Photography (Photography, 1-10 employees) Chose Apache OpenOffice Apache OpenOffice may not quite have all the bells and whistles of Microsoft Office, but I chose it for one major reason: it is absolutely free. It is also fully functional as a free software. There is no trial, need to upgrade, or subscription plan. As a small business owner, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Apache OpenOffice I like the look and feel that Apache open office has. The fact that it is Open Source and not costly is great. It has an easy learning curve for people that are used to using Microsoft Office. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Philip Schmitz, CIC Owner in Corporate at Schmitz Insurance, LLC (Insurance, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Google Workspace is good on the cloud side but did not integrate with our CMS and lacked desktop apps which we find more full-featured. Apache OpenOffice and Libre integrate with our CMS but are not cloud-based and not near as many features/capabilities. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office 365 is a much more mature and feature-rich product than either Apache OpenOffice or Google Drive. For use in a large scale organization, where you need reliability, stability, and a wide enough range of features to support all users' needs, Microsoft Office 365 … Incentivized Helpful? Giovanni Jurado Business Analyst Team Lead at Cloudpay (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 BTE, this search bar is not the best; I couldn't find Google Suite. In any case, it's challenging to find a suite with advanced tools that serves as an office. Google comes close, no one uses OpenOffice (hyperbole), and there isn't much else to use. If you add to that the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 Thunderbird is very nice tool but in my case not used because I have several issues with his calendar. Zoom is very good tool, providing you low band usage and good video and sound quality. I have tested OpenOffice but not nice UI experience. Incentivized Helpful? Huseyin Yagli Senior Staff Engineer in Engineering at Udemy (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Google Sheets is better for sharing and collaborative editing. Versioning of the same file is also one of Google Sheets strong points. Microsoft 365 is better for working with local files. It is much easier to store the file in multiple places and backup multiple versions in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is in almost all cases the best option for office solutions in a professional environment. If there is a budget for software like this, I would generally recommend Microsoft Office. However, where your requirements for features are basic, you might enjoy free … Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Martin Owner at Dignified Hedonist (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 I use Microsoft 365 alongside Google Workspace. Microsoft 365, specifically Excel, is far superior to Google Sheets apart from the ease of sharing documents Google Workspace programs allow. For some clients who are less comfortable with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 is the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 It's all about the network effect. Since everyone else at my school using Microsoft 365, eventually I had to bite the bullet and join the crowd. Using the officially supported file syncing and sharing solution solves a large number of problems right out of the box. Other … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Rempel VP Operations in Engineering at Steel Creek Developers (Real Estate, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 I have used Apache's OpenOffice and Google's document software for many years due to the high cost of obtaining licensed copies of MS Office in the past. While those options worked, I was never fully satisfied with the reduced feature set that they offered. In addition, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 I have tried open-source alternatives such as OpenOffice but compatibility issues arise sometimes. We selected Microsoft 365 because it is the business gold standard of office productivity suites and nothing else comes close. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office 365 is way more advanced than OpenOffice and has so many versatile features. Microsoft Office 365 should be used by just about every company regardless of size. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 In our company we have both Office 365 and regular Office 2016. We are transitioning more to 365 for the ease of managing the licensing. We don't have to keep license cards or numbers stored anywhere because 365 uses your microsoft login which you are using anyway. Compared to … Incentivized Helpful? Lee'Ann Burgess Founder at Social Vibe Marketing, Inc. (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 I’ve used OpenOffice which is similar to excel but limited on capabilities. Also, comparably I have used and still use Airtable for spreadsheets and kanban style boards. Although very similar (comparing excel to Airtable) I like the ability to easily collaborate on projects, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft 365 MS Office 365 is more powerful than others. They provide us more advanced features. One thing is compatibility when we work with our customers and suppliers. We can exchange data in a very common format. Another thing is MS Office 365 is being updated frequently with more … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hecox Business Owner in Marketing at Lucky Whisker LLC (Online Media, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 I like these applications, but Google does them for free. You can't beat that. I still use OneNote frequently, but for most work, Google is a winner here. Incentivized Helpful? Diego Pacheco Diego Pacheco in Information Technology at Aloo Telecom (Telecommunications, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 The main point was the integration of the tools: backup + email + text editors, all in one tool; Employees had greater difficulty creating presentations on their competitors' tools, as well as more advanced use of data sheets. Incentivized Helpful? Verónica Marshall Associate Attorney in Legal at FordHarrison LLP (Derecho, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office has a monopoly on the formats for documents, slides and spreadsheets. No wonder since Microsoft Office has a long history and has always had the best performance. The great capacity that this product has has been demonstrated and improved over the years, … Incentivized Helpful? Luis Garcia Müller Coordinador Maestría Historia Regional de Venezuela at Universidad de Margarita (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Being one of the first has always had the ability to offer a universal format in addition to being the most demanded office package and the best paid, which together with its options make it indispensable. Incentivized Helpful? Victor Arana IT Manager in Information Technology at Stoneleaf Construction LLC (Construction, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office 365 simply drives through the cloud platform allowing to set a huge variety of options that can be set from custom to standard software in a single package or just to set an specific range of options enabled to the end users, and given the chance to the company … Incentivized Helpful? Tom Pentzer Medical Student at FDM Academy (Medical Practice, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft 365 I've played with OpenOffice some, but have not spent that much time with it. OpenOffice was helpful for editing some pdf files I needed to update. No MS Office product was able to do this. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Apache OpenOffice	Microsoft 365
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published September 8, 2022

	Apache OpenOffice	Microsoft 365
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (20 ratings)	7.8 (240 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.5 (6 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (4 ratings)	7.2 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (2 ratings)	8.9 (54 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)