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> open new docx etc documents in much older versions of Office, and in some cases, edit them

Well... There is partial functionality. That makes it even more difficult to support the stack as you have to keep track of which versions of what can edit which documents.

> You can create files in old Microsoft formats

Try explaining that to the average Office user.



What's the average cost per year of employing an average Office worker? $50.000?

What's the cost per year of buying a copy of Office? (I'm still on Office 2007 and it's 2014...)

People whose time is worth so little that they can't afford to update Office can spend time on workarounds instead.




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