We use MS Office and will always just buy the volume license and install it via that black screen thing--no idea what it's called, command prompt? Anyway, IT dude does it. 365 and cloud has zero appeal for me and I've insisted on avoiding any widespread integration of anything cloud based. For data that isn't sensitive, it's fine; but, not for anything even remotely confidential.

Never used Google, gmail or anything like that, and everything is saved to local HDs with a pre-determined schedule of zero-formatting erasing. Nothing private over email or texting, and I've always recommended to avoid putting anything important via text or email--I encourage everyone to use the phone.

Finally, I'm app agnostic too. Couldn't care less what we use, so long as it just works. Could be OpenOffice, Mac's iWords, etc...makes no difference to me--the only condition being no subscription or ongoing costs and no cloud stuff.

My prediction? Drobox is the future, and like FB et al, invest in it but don't ever use it.

PS - Not investment advice or recommendation to buy DBX or anything like that. Just random thoughts...all that jazz.

PS 2 - For personal convenience, I do use Sync, the Canadian one. I have zero trust when it comes to privacy from American firms, and Dropbox is only relegated to the free version where frivolous & unimportant files can be shared for pure convenience.