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TL;DR: Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows is $27.97 (reg. $219.99) through October 20, with no subscription.

If you only use a handful of Microsoft apps, these free, open-source alternatives could give you a way out of the subscription.

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Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft bring free Office-style apps to desktop and web, but their developers still describe them as unfinished alpha software.

Microsoft is pouring money into AI while developers are using it to build free alternatives to the company's software. That probably wasn't the plan.

Microsoft Office can be expensive, especially if you want to pay an annual Microsoft 365 subscription. Office is available for free in some capacity, but it's limited. If Microsoft Office is not a ...