The number of network connections required to and servers, to get Word just to start, is now 31. You can no longer say "I don´t want to send diagnostic data", then Word just quits silently. (Please spare me the Open/LibreOffice gospel, it does not apply here.)
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It is time to require software to be usable offline and to force manufacturers to declare precisely (down to the bits) what data they send and why. That every piece of "productivity"-software turns into spyware can not continue.
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And here is the support document showing that you can only chose between "Basic" and "Full" telemetry, but not "None". I think this violates the #GDPR.
support.office.com/en-us/article/
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Why does Open/LibreOffice not apply here? If you want Microsoft to change its ways, you're going to need leverage. LibreOffice gives you that leverage.
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Because the open source attempt to emulate UI and behaviour of Word succeeded in the domain of being as buggy and resource consuming, but not in being sufficiently compatible to reliably use when you need to work on files together with die-hard Word users. Even tried multi.
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what telemetry alternatives are there that could solve the same job but without the privacy issues?
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Little Snitch was the tool used.
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