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    Microsoft 365

    • Paid • Proprietary
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Microsoft 365 info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to Microsoft 365
    Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based software services that licenses Microsoft Office products for on-premise or cloud-based use.

    For consumers, the service allows the use of Small Microsoft Office Suite iconMicrosoft Office Suite apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Small Microsoft OneDrive iconMicrosoft OneDrive cloud storage service, and grants 60 Small Skype iconSkype minutes per month. For business and enterprise users, Microsoft 365 offers plans including e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Small Microsoft Exchange Server iconMicrosoft Exchange Server , Skype for Business Server, Small Microsoft SharePoint iconMicrosoft SharePoint and https://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-office-live/ , integration with Small Yammer iconYammer, as well as access to the Office software.
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    • Document Workflow
    • Document sharing
    • IFTTT integration
    • Email Server
    • Web-Based
    • Real time collaboration
    • Project management

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    Anamon
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    Installing desktop applications from an Office 365 subscription is performed through a Microsoft Click-To-Run installer. For those of you who are not yet aware of this despiccable, nightmarish abomination of a software turd, what it basically boils down to is that it will install the software the way it wants to, and doesn't give you the choice in anything. Your computer system is no longer yours once you use an application based on Click-To-Run.

    You can't choose which applications to install, it will always deploy the full suite of applications – currently about 2.5 GB. If you're installing a 64-bit system, happy days! You'll also get the 32-bit versions installed alongside, no questions asked. There is actually a way to circumvent at least the former, but it's convoluted, and you frankly shouldn't have to be the one to bother with fixing what Microsoft broke. But the cherry on top of this pile of rubbish: there is absolutely no way of changing the destination drive or directory that Office gets installed to. No need to clean out your ears, you heard right: this is 2016, and one of the biggest software developers in the world publishes one of their most popular applications with an installer that does not include an option to change the target installation path! I honestly felt like I was catapulted back to 1981, and that I was installing this office suite on a PC running IBM PC-DOS 1.00. That version didn't support subdirectories yet, which from today's perspective seems about as ridiculous as not offering a freaking way for me to choose where an application is installed.

    If you can't, or don't want to, install applications on your system partition, tough luck, no Office for you. For anyone else, too, while it's a pretty banal issue on the surface, this is probably one of the biggest incentives to go out and try an alternative Office suite. Hint: LibreOffice asks you where it wants you to install it during setup. Imagine that! I guess we're living in the future!

    tihedomecu

    Office365 installs on C drive, because it improves the performance due to the low latency in accessing to certain system files. yeah Office products always rely on system files, like libraries installed in system drive.

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    coth
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    • Negative comment • over 3 years ago • 1 users agree and 1 doesn't • 0 replies
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    Might be interesting solution for USA. But in developing countries it cost who a fortune. Completely inaccessible for personal, small and medium business.

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    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Microsoft 365, and it has gotten 27 likes

    • Developed by Microsoft
    • Proprietary and Commercial product.
    • One time purchase (perpetual license)
    • Average rating of 2
    • 70 alternatives listed

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    • 1LibreOffice
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    Microsoft 365 was added to AlternativeTo by s_ktt on Nov 6, 2013 and this page was last updated Aug 26, 2020. Microsoft 365 is sometimes referred to as Office 365, o365, Microsoft Office 365.
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