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Tired of paying for Microsoft Word? These open-source alternatives get the job done

Subscription fatigue is real. If you’re feeling locked in by Microsoft Word and tired of paying for features you’ll never use ...
How-To Geek on MSN

I replaced Microsoft Word with a self-hosted, open-source alternative

As an added bonus, ONLYOFFICE is pretty close to a complete replacement for the entire Microsoft Office Suite, or at least ...
ZDNet

Microsoft Teams becomes first Office app available for Linux. What's next?

Microsoft is launching its promised Teams group-chat product for Linux in public preview form on December 10. Microsoft is making the Linux Teams preview available in .deb and .rpm formats for ...
ZDNet

Microsoft finally open-sources (most of) Windows Subsystem for Linux

It took Microsoft long enough, but the company has finally open-sourced its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) code. The announcement was made at the Build 2025 developer conference, closing a nearly ...
CNET

Microsoft: Linux threat is rising

More companies are using the threat of Linux when negotiating deals with Microsoft, one of the company's senior executives has admitted. A year after a letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to his ...
Los Angeles Times

Microsoft Switches Strategy on Linux

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. executives have called the open-source software Linux a cancer. They’ve even described the increasingly popular operating system -- an alternative to Microsoft’s proprietary ...