Reasons to quit #microsoft #office (from Cāt magazine 2026 1st magazine from 27.12.2025)
1)
Uncertainty: Mcrosoft has the option to cancel your account at any time, as it was probably done to Karim Khan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Ahmad_Khan)
Also when there is bigger outages from microsoft services, one users will suffer.
2)
Private data protection
Not only anonymized data is processed by Microsoft. Also file contents are sent to microsofts servers by using their cloud, AI transcription feature or even grammatic corrections of the text.
3)
More and more defaults pointing to clouds. When one prefers local storage, it is combined with constant additional effort to do so compared to cloud storage, wile features like file history or autosave are only available in the cloud for no good reason.
4)
Price tyranny
Users and organizations depending on the microsoft office are exposed to the price changes made by Microsoft. In 2022 prices rose by 25% for company subscriptions, in 2023 by another 10% and for 2026 there are already plans to increase prices by another 10-25%.
5)
Use of #copilot by all microsoft tools by default.
