When comparing Microsoft Office vs Cryptpad, the Slant community recommends Microsoft Office for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to Google Docs?” Microsoft Office is ranked 1st while Cryptpad is ranked 6th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Incredible apps and completely free to use
Pro NGI award
Europe’s Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI.eu) award for privacy and trust-enhanced technologies. The NGI Startup Awards recognize Europe’s most promising entrepreneurs who develop revolutionary products, solutions and services.
Pro Kanban
Kanban board.
Pro Markdown
Markdown support, also for presentations.
Cons
Con Over priced and being slowly forced to 365
Con Loaded with bugs
Program hangs can occur with 365 and tons of high CPU thermal loading from this package to the point of requiring uninstall of this package. Word hasn't gotten any better since they refined it in the early 2000s - it's only gotten far more bloated and crash prone, not to mention the horrible GUI appearance and lack of functionality that their older, stand-alone packages once had.
Even XL (formerly, Lotus 1,2,3), was ruined and degraded to where, 101 functions ceased to function properly.
Outlook - what a debacle that turned out to be. About the only useful application in the suite turned out to be PowerPoint in daily use.
Con Next step down the path of constant surveillance
At least with standalone and a good packet filter you can limit what telemetry is being sent back to Microsoft.
Con Limited storage
The free version offers only 50 Mb storage.