And of course defaulting to cloud everything now is truly annoying. Office is like those Madden games where the only thing they update are the rosters-with Office, the main thing that seems to change is the GUI theme to match the latest OS. So it's mostly cost-it does what they want and newer offers no compelling new features. The strange thing is 2010-2013-2016 are all much like 2007 with more text labels in the ribbon, so there is next to no learning curve updating from 2007, and thus no pressing need for extensive retraining unless one of the 46% still on 2003. I thought 2007's ribbons were terrible at the time but it probably wouldn't have been a problem if we had today's high resolution monitors back then. Removing the ability to customize has been a common theme with Office-2003 was the last that had fully customizable menus and I am still most productive with it. You are not even able to customize the installation of 2016 though (well, without editing a file on the DVD itself), so setup full-installs all applications on the DVD. While not common, 2016 is available on DVDs and presumably the next version 2019 will be as well because not everyone has broadband. Office 2003 was the last that came on CD, while 2007 and later actually came on DVDs.

Elsewhere, the research points out that 17% of businesses are currently using Google’s G Suite instead of Microsoft’s alternatives. The online productivity suite is a more compelling option for businesses thanks to its always up-to-date nature. According to its survey, 17% of businesses are hoping to move to Microsoft's cloud-based Office 365 suite by 2019. The IT company noted that it's not a completely dire outlook for Microsoft. Shipping firm Maersk declared that the malware may end up costing it $300 million. For example, NotPetya, a ransomware malware, was behind mass service outages during May and June. Vulnerability in the aforementioned softwares can inflict significant financial blows to companies. Over the years, there have been hundreds of vulnerabilities identified in Microsoft Office.” Once an OS no longer receives updates, it's a security liability. Just like any software or system in use, productivity suites need to be patched for security reasons. 'Although they might not grab as many headlines as end-of-support OSes, Office suites that are past their prime are susceptible to danger, similar to their OS cousins. Either way, according to Tsai, organizations should bear in mind that their budget-saving methods can expose them to much larger financial damage:

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