Which version of Office for inevitable upgrade to Windows 10?

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bld522

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I just bought a new laptop with Windows 7 Pro installed on it. The laptop came with Office 365 shovelware on the hard drive, but I haven't activated it yet. I'm currently running Office 2003 on my existing home computers (2) and I'm running Office 2007 on my work computer. I'm retiring in about a year and I want to keep my future computing costs to a minimum. I realize I'm captive to Microsoft and I'll inevitably have to move to Windows 10 at some point. But I'm not going to do that until it's been in the wild for at least a year. I've heard that Office 2003 isn't supported by Windows 10 but Office 2007 is. I've also heard that Microsoft intends to continue supporting Office 2007 until October, 2017. Last but not least, the street price for Office 2007 Pro installable on 3 computers is around $100.00. So here's my question.

Should I buy Office 2007 now and install it on all three of my computers or face the inevitable and make the jump to Office 365 right away?

PS: This seems like a weird forum to be having this discussion, but I've found it's easier to ride the horse in the direction he's going. And there are some REALLY smart people in here. So please help me with this decision if you can.
 
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I didn't see much improvements from 2007 to 2010. I think 100$ for Pro on 3 computers is a good deal.
Plus you already know it well from working with it at the office. Go for it.

I'm totally against 365 just because it's cloud base and I like to know where my data resides.
 
Yeah. That's my concern too. The company I'm working for has already made the decision to go with Office 365. At this point, the only thing they're migrating is our e-mail . . . no small task for a company with over 1000 employees. But it's already a disaster. Their first shot at the migration (about 15 employees) worked fine, but the second attempt (another 50 employees) failed. They need to roll back, reevaluate, and start over. Thank God they didn't try to migrate the entire company all at once.

I'm also inclined to go with Office 2007. But I'd love to get a little more feedback before I make that decision . . .
 
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When you said you had a question and we had a lot of really smart people here I automatically assumed you were referring to me.

Then I saw the question and realized I was in error. Big time.

My bad. I wish you good luck in your decision process. Personally I will look for something with email and forum access and not lose a minutes sleep about any of the rest. Actually that's pretty much what I do now.
 
Thanks, Bawanna. For the most part, all we use in Office is Word and Excel. But we rely on those applications and I'm not comfortable continuing to run unsupported apps (i.e., Office 2003). So like it or not, an upgrade (and I use that term euphimistically) is in order. I'm with snowwolf in not having a lot of faith in the security of cloud based storage, so I'm basically looking for the least expensive upgrade that Windows 10 will support when Microsoft inevitably forces it on us. I've heard that Office 2007 will be fully supported by Windows 10 without having to run in compatibility mode, but I'd like to be certain of that before I buy it.
 
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Well I'm about 40 minutes or less from Bill Gates house, reckon I ought to go ask him.

Fun Fact. I actually went to a party one time and he was there, 30 some years ago, at a house I did some remodeling and work on.
Seemed like a normal enough dude.

I don't know exactly how to drive to his house but I can get there easy by boat.
 
Sounds like things got figured out. But if I may; I've been using OpenOffice for years. Tested it on Windows 10 the other day, no problems. It's a free Office Suite compatible with Microsoft Office and Word Perfect Office. If you have a version of MS Office that works on Windows 10, great! If not and you don't need MS office for work compatibility, consider OpenOffice.
 
Someone mentioned LibreOffice as well the Win10 thread. It also looks feature rich.
 
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Someone mentioned LibreOffice as well the Win10 thread. It also looks feature rich.
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it was probably me ;) a new version of libre office is out. lots of software developers are upgrading to win10 compatible versions.

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kronckew said:
it was probably me ;) a new version of libre office is out. lots of software developers are upgrading to win10 compatible versions.
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Open source! Khul! I still have office 2010. is it compatible with .docx,.doc.xls/csv etc from office? Do you have to import everything?
 
no importing, i just click the file name & LO opens it just like office. you can save/open the open document formats too. most stuff comes thru just like office, but there may be some interpretational /formulalayout/font issues. as long as there is nothing overly fancy. not sure about involved macros.
 
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