Weekly Poll: Do You Still Use Microsoft Office?

For years, decades even, Microsoft Office has been the mainstay of the business world. Everyone from college students to CEOs had to use Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and more to create and edit essential files for their daily lives. Office helped cement the Windows PC’s place in the computing world, made it tough to use Linux for normal business and education work, and made Apple desperate to make sure Office for Mac would continue to be developed in the late ’90′s.

There’s so many alternates to Microsoft Office nowadays, though, and so many devices it can’t run on, that it’s hardly the giant in the room it used to be. Sure, it’s still an essential part of many people’s computing lives, but many of us have learned we can get by without it. Google Docs and even Microsoft’s own web apps made collaborating in the cloud simpler, something that’s far more important today than sharing printable files. Then, Android and iOS tablets can’t even run Office, giving many of us reasons to question our dependence on Microsoft.

Have office web apps helped you cut your dependence on Microsoft Office, or do you still install the Office suite as soon as you get a new computer? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!