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Collaborate more effectively

MICROSOFT

OFFICE $69.99/year From microsoft.com

Features Create documents, graphs, presentations and spreadsheets, OneDrive cloud storage, Teams for conferencing

While Apple’s productivity apps — Keynote, Pages and Numbers — have improved a lot since their introduction, Microsoft rules the roost when it comes to this stuff. Word, PowerPoint and Excel are the worldwide standard for office use, even if Google Docs is making inroads too.

By using Microsoft Office you’re more or less guaranteeing that your documents can be opened and edited by anyone you choose to send them to.

Microsoft likes you to do everything via an account just like Apple does, so you’ll need to sign up and sign in with your Microsoft ID, though this does get you 1TB of OneDrive storage for your

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