&gt;  Office is great because users in most business settings can quickly pick up any of its applications<p>My experience is that &#x27;users in business settings&#x27; absolutely refuse to consider any alternatives, mainly because of two &#x27;fear factors&#x27;:
1.) &quot;Everyone else in my industry uses Microsoft Office products so I must as well&quot;
2.) (Usually unstated explicitly) &quot;Learning an alternative is going to cost me time and money and personal effort&quot;<p>Sure, Excel can be a useful spreadsheet tool, but Word is a clumsy and difficult publishing tool.  Many alternatives from LaTeX to LibreOffice to InDesign tend to be more portable and reliable but require the user to assume a degree of risk for learning something new and different.  That seems to be enough to keep the majority of users away.