{"id":616,"date":"2026-05-20T07:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diged.au\/?p=616"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:57:57","slug":"do-we-need-to-purchase-third-party-antivirus-or-microsoft-office-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diged.au\/blog\/do-we-need-to-purchase-third-party-antivirus-or-microsoft-office-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we need to purchase third-party antivirus or Microsoft Office licenses?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not at all. Ubuntu Pro (which CReSED runs on) is virtually immune to viruses, ransomware, and the common malware that plagues Windows networks. No antivirus bloatware needed. And for office software, we include LibreOffice \u2014 a full-featured suite that opens and edits Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with ease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You get everything you need to write, calculate, present, and collaborate \u2014 without paying for Microsoft\u2019s monthly subscriptions or fighting constant compatibility issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not at all. Ubuntu Pro (which CReSED runs on) is virtually immune to viruses, ransomware, and the common malware that plagues Windows networks. No antivirus bloatware needed. And for office software, we include LibreOffice \u2014 a full-featured suite that opens and edits Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with ease. You get everything you need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cresed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diged.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diged.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diged.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diged.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diged.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diged.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/diged.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diged.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diged.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diged.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}