Trusting Microsoft is Foolish
Microsoft cannot be trusted. This has been true for 5 decades. Some people either refuse to learn from history or simply receive a salary from Microsoft (so they prefer not to understand).
Recently, as in the past ~2 years, Microsoft paid many sites (lots of IDG-owned sites) to spread misinformation about "lifetime" licences for things like Microsoft Office.
How many people are dumb enough to believe this? Computers don't last a lifetime, software becomes incompatible over time, there are new versions of things (even formats), and so on.
For Microsoft to speak of "perpetual licenses" (or licences in the UK) is "to gaslight customers." Mr. Rossmann says they "gaslight customers" in their Web site, but it goes a lot further than this.
There are many agencies and companies that move to adopt LibreOffice. If the media still functioned, there would be actual journalism about what Microsoft has just done and active promotion of software that uses OpenDocument (ODF). In reality, a lot of today's media publishes what companies pay it to publish, so it keeps promoting Microsoft, GAFAM, and openwashed proprietary "suites" that use OOXML. █