This brings down the upfront cost of Microsoft Office dramatically and has made the adoption of Office even easier and manifold. For years& Microsoft has offered Office as a SaaS& short for Software-as-a-Service. Yet& businesses and most educational institutions rely on and use Microsoft Office& and you cannot go wrong with Microsoft Office. Google has its own cloud-based apps to replace Microsoft Word& Excel& and PowerPoint for you& and& yes& for free. There are several equally capable solutions out there& from the cross-platform and excellent LibreOffice that can be run even on Linux operating systems to the feature-rich Zoho that is a great alternative to the venerable Microsoft Office suite with full collaboration support and apps on mobile and desktop platforms as well as the cloud. That sounds like rhetoric& but yes& not everyone on the planet uses Microsoft Office. Part 1 Part 1: Reasons to Shift from Google Drive to Microsoft OneDrive If You Use Microsoft Office