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Wikipedia about The Matrix movie

I have to decide whether to upgrade to Office 2013. If I want my life to be easy I should just take the blue pill and do what Microsoft tells me to do; pay them a monthly check and live a comfortable Microsoft cloud.

But no, I will take the red pill and read “Microsoft Office 2013 vs. Office 365: Is either right for you?” for pricing information and investigate possible alternatives.

You might think that you have a choice and that taking the red pill will open up new possibilities; Mint instead of Windows 8, LibreOffice Calc instead of Microsoft Excel. But Linux bricks Samsung laptops, Google Chromebooks don’t work well off-line and Calc does not have VBA macros (actually this might be good thing!).

The cost of a blue pill? about £ 100 per year. It would cost me a lot more just to learn to use Calc. As I often say in business “it’s not the principle of the thing, it’s the money” and in this case ignorance is cheaper than knowledge.