An option only available on households with UNIX skills, and work that has zero dependency on using Microsoft products.
replySomething that isn't available to everyone.
If you need office open a browser, in the unlikely case that libreoffice doesn't do.
replySays someone that never used native Office versus Office Web.
replyYeah Web version will do, if everything you need is doable with Microsoft Works, and no collaboration with others is required.
Google docs serves my word processing needs, then again I don't do anything at home that wasn't already possible in Word 2.0 for Windows 3.1, Wordpad, or AmigaWriter.