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Microsoft has government and cooperate costumers that will keep paying them for decades. Why care? If MSword still works, people will buy it.
Except they're slowly being ditched for Linux. LibreOffice can do most things MSOffice can. One thing it cannot do is "cooperative work online, in an Office365 document", which might force governments to develop their own solutions instead of letting users hide other people's fields, then waste my work time on duckduckgoing all the newly discovered cell hiding methods, because some other institute's office workers thought it was useful to them, but forget to unhide them every time.
I'll take it one step further and say that if you absolutely must use Office, O365 works in a browser on any operating system. You literally don't need Windows anymore for that.