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Which is all well and good, but a prospective employer quite frankly doesn't care. They care that it didn't open properly and looks like a mess, then they tossed in the garbage.
We're not talking about an apocalypse situation where we need to rebuild a file based on the documented standard, but an everyday business situation.
In my case office is for personal, not commercial use. In a business situation, I agree.
BTW using 2013 at work, and I really dislike the flat UI.
Then buy the one-PC version of Office 365 for $6 a month instead, the break even point is 3.2 years.
If you're going to buy a new copy of MS Office within 3.2 years, you saved money by going with O365 instead. If you're not going to buy a new copy of MS Office within 3.2 years, put the difference in cash that you didnt spend upfront in an interest bearing investment account of your choice and it will make more money (on average, subject to the markets, blah blah blah) per month than the $6 you're spending on O365. Hooray retirement savings!
If they release a new version of Office within that 3.2 years, you get to upgrade for free, which if you wanted to otherwise upgrade that would be a brand new $230 license (pushing the retail cost up to $460).
Whereas a retail copy is just a flat $230 hole in your pocket, paid up front.
Are there cases where buying a retail copy is the right choice? Sure, but it's maybe 1% of all situations where O365 truly isn't a flat out better choice from both a features and a cost perspective.
Not to mention that more than likely 2016 will be the last retail version of Office they sell, instead going to a full subscription model *only* selling O365.
You didn't see the first part of my post apparently. I'm running an older office version because, quite frankly, for what I'm using it for there is zero incentive to upgrade. I got 10+ years out of 2K, and since Win10 supports Office 2010 just fine, I'm properly looking at 2025'ish before I really need to upgrade.
Besides, even at $6 a month, we're still talking an additional $490 compared to a retail licence over a 10 year period. I'll not even go into the numbers if 2010 lasts me 15 years.