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Wormius · 05-26-2022, 12:27 AM

^^^ I am not sure how much a boss or somebody snooping from your company could see. I had admin privileges in Office 365 and I could see all of the employee stats for all of the Office apps and extensions used: where they were logging in from, how many emails they received and sent, app usage. I didn’t delve into it very far, but on the surface it seemed like a bunch of stuff for employees performance metrics. I don’t care too much because I don’t do anything non-work related on my work pc, so if the boss could see I spent 2 hours researching something in Edge I wouldn’t mind - but if it combined my home pc Edge browsing behaviour or some personal documents prepared in Word, because my Office software was linked to a company email address, I’d be concerned.

I don’t keep or do any personal stuff on my work pc. If I am on, say, Calgarypuck, I use my phone and do it on my own data plan.

Maybe none of that is possible and I am just being paranoid. I wouldn’t want to risk it just to get some free software though. OpenOffice is pretty decent and you can find OEM licenses of some older Office software on Amazon for a good deal. I personally prefer the non-cloud based Office whee it wasn’t pestering you about using OneDrive whenever you wanted to create new documents or spreadsheets.

05-26-2022, 12:27 AM	#6
Wormius Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Somewhere down the crazy river. Exp:	MS Office deactivation ^^^ I am not sure how much a boss or somebody snooping from your company could see. I had admin privileges in Office 365 and I could see all of the employee stats for all of the Office apps and extensions used: where they were logging in from, how many emails they received and sent, app usage. I didn’t delve into it very far, but on the surface it seemed like a bunch of stuff for employees performance metrics. I don’t care too much because I don’t do anything non-work related on my work pc, so if the boss could see I spent 2 hours researching something in Edge I wouldn’t mind - but if it combined my home pc Edge browsing behaviour or some personal documents prepared in Word, because my Office software was linked to a company email address, I’d be concerned. I don’t keep or do any personal stuff on my work pc. If I am on, say, Calgarypuck, I use my phone and do it on my own data plan. Maybe none of that is possible and I am just being paranoid. I wouldn’t want to risk it just to get some free software though. OpenOffice is pretty decent and you can find OEM licenses of some older Office software on Amazon for a good deal. I personally prefer the non-cloud based Office whee it wasn’t pestering you about using OneDrive whenever you wanted to create new documents or spreadsheets. Last edited by Wormius; 05-26-2022 at 12:30 AM.