I am a Linux-person. Linux/UNIX is my life. I breathe it, I live it. That is me. Then gain, there is the business. The business is defined by my customers. I need to be able to communicate with and share documents with my customers. The thing is … my customers use Windows and they use Microsoft Office. Myself I am happy with the offices that my favorite machines offer: pages/numbers/keynote on macOS and OpenOffice/LibreOffice on any system (mostly Linux).

Talking business means, I need to have Microsoft Office, no matter what. My job demands it. So I went for Microsoft Office 365 Home.

Let me say it straight: like many of us, I do not like Microsoft too much. The software ist basically buggy, their Windows 10 update-strategy is a doomsday-machine and their business-ethics is … well … we all know, do we not?

Microsoft comes with a couple of interesting plans, though (status as of mid 2019):

• Office 365 Personal (69€ p.a.) offering a personal Office-license on as many machines as required, plus 1TB OneDrive synchronised storage.
• Office 365 Home (99€ p.a.) offering the same as above, but for a total of 6 users … EACH having their own 1TB OneDrive storage. Quite an offer if I might say this.
• OneDrive 50 … not worth talking about.
• OneDrive Basic 5GB … free … (wow, Microsoft, offering that did hurt, didn’t it?). If 5GB are sufficient to your use-case, this will do fine, if you do not need the Office itself.

All in all, I must say that with this offer, Microsoft earned some respect from my side. Before the Nadella-era, this would not have been possible. Good job, so far! It is a good package for people like me. If ever they step down from their arrogant socket that they stand on with the Windows 10 updates, I might even start to like them.

So … from a personal point of view, this is not my cup of tea. From a professional point of view, for me Office 365 is simply a must-have and a reasonable deal. That’s it!

That Windows 10 crap cost me a fortune, when I changed my Internet-provider and I had to bridge 2 months with an LTE-router … then came a patch-day and my half a dozen Windows-irons smoked my LTE-plan within 3 days. Not a nice move, Microsoft! I do not have time to deep-dive the registry to make this thing behave and announce an update and ask for permission to install it, before smoking away my traffic-allowance.