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Microsoft is introducing ads into a free version of Office, which seemingly only lets users save to OneDrive.
In other news, LibreOffice is also free, doesn't have ads, and lets you save your documents wherever you want. I use it every day for my work. It is available here:
@neil I'm team OpenOffice. But just cause I'm used to it since 2000 and, in my age, it's hard to get used to sth new.
@historiavocis @neil
First release of openoffice was in 2002, the final release in 2011. It has now been obsolete longer than it ever was active.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
@historiavocis @neil
Ah, thanks, didn't know that.
I now see they even link to Apache OpenOffice from the https://www.openoffice.org/ website. So confusing!
@joosteto @historiavocis @neil Apache OpenOffice is still obsolescent. It has a number of long-running unfixed security issues.
The only OpenOffice fork that is maintained regularly (and therefore has bugs and issues fixed asap) is LibreOffice.
edit: clarified my response
@ElBeeToots @joosteto @neil Yes, perhaps I should finally switch to that...
@historiavocis @ElBeeToots @joosteto @neil Apache OpenOffice has multiple, unfixed security issues over a year old, so it's strongly recommended to update to an actively maintained successor project like LibreOffice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security
@libreoffice That was what I was referring to with that mention of 'obsolescent'. I'll clarify it in my previous response.
@libreoffice @ElBeeToots @joosteto @neil Thanks,
I've just installed Libre Office 
@historiavocis Hope you like it!
@libreoffice looks quite like what I'm used to from OpenOffice.