I really don't understand the lack of rotate. They have solarize, charcoal and other effects but not something that basic. The issue is over a decade old https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3545

Agreed. I tried using the Libre suite for a while to save on costs, but the time I spent grappling with Libre was worth much more to me than the $120 cost of Office.

You can rightfully accuse Office of feature creep, but I'd still rather use it over any of its competitors.

That might also be where they came up with the 21 million euro number. Having every single office employee take days of training to learn how to sidestep all the quirks in LibreOffice is expensive.

So is having to retrain them on the Office Ribbon, or on Win8. the nice thing about FOSS is that you update when you want to - not when Redmond decide you going to.

Also the majority of users only use the basic functionality. If you have 10,000 users in your organisation all creating new document templates, editing embedded images or creating pivot tables - it's likely that you have more problems than simply the Office suite

The number of organizations using outdated versions of Office and Windows seems to indicate that FOSS does not somehow makes you more free to not upgrade.

As a contrast, I've pretty much lived in LibreOffice (and a little Google Docs) for the past ~2 years for personal stuff and haven't found much I miss from MS Office. My needs for an office suite are pretty basic though, I suppose.

Same here. We have been MS-Office free for more than three years and have LibreOffice on all our laptops (Linux for me, my wife's Windows and my son's Mac). Until a few years ago, when documents created/saved in (then) OpenOffice were sent to others, they occasionally used to have problems opening them in MS Office. I can't remember the last time we had heard such complaints.

My my complaint with LibreOffice is that it's slow to start up and eats up quite a lot of memory, especially when left running for a long time.