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Why not just promote open source? Unless maybe if you need it for a career. Even if you're ...pirating just boycott that shit, lol.
LibreOffice can read and export to Microsoft Office formats. So there's really no reason to pirate Microsoft Office even if you technically need it for a job (and if the IT guy complains about "non-standard software", threaten to get him written up by HR for wasting company hours complaining instead of actually doing his job).
Except for those cases where it can't. There's always some small, but important, discrepancies. Never have I been able to actually use Libre Writer instead of Word when another party is using Word - same goes for Calc and Excel, sadly. Excel is an absolute UX nightmare for me and I violently hate using it.
I wish the whole world would just drop Microsoft office like the bad product it is and went to libre. Yeah, it was innovative when it first hit the scene, but now it's just become stale and pointlessly expensive.