Letters

Farewell Microsoft Office, Adobe and Outlook

In Issue 589 you asked readers to contact you with details of programs which they’ve stopped using. Over the past year I reviewed the programs I use regularly on my Windows 10 computer and decided to make some changes.

First to go was Microsoft 365, replaced by LibreOffice, which is free and does most of the things that Microsoft 365 does. I sometimes make donations to the Document Foundation (www.documentfoundation.org) to help keep the project running.

Second was Adobe Photoshop, which is expensive and also charges monthly. I replaced this with Paint.NET (www.getpaint.net, pictured below), which allows quick basic editing of images on the fly. For more complicated work I use GIMP (www.gimp.org).

Third was Outlook, a program I’ve hated for years because you can never find settings in its cumbersome menu structure. I replaced this with eM Client (), which I bought for £44.95