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Microsoft Announces Office 2016 and Office For Windows 10 Coming Later This Year
An anonymous reader writes At its Windows 10 event yesterday, Microsoft unveiled the touch-optimized version of Office. Today, the company offered more details about that version, and then snuck in another announcement: the next desktop version is under development, it is called Office 2016, and it will be generally available "in the second half of 2015." Office for Windows 10 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook), meanwhile, is also slated to arrive later this year, though Microsoft has shared more about it and plans to offer a preview in the coming weeks. These new Office apps will be pre-installed (they will be free) on smartphones and small tablets running Windows 10. They will also be available to download from the Windows Store for other devices.
Perhaps they overestimated the stupidity of their users? Not all corporations want to get yearly fee and forced downtime on network outages. At least the successful companies have people who can calculate the costs of renting software instead of buying it once per 8 years with the new computer.
I'm still surprised how fast Windows 8.1 works on my low end HP Stream tablet - this isn't the company that brought you Vista any more.
Right, it's worse than Vista.
My quad core Haswell Ideapad laptop with 8 GB RAM and a hybrid drive grinds so achingly slowly with Windows 8.1 that I don't use it for anything. There's practically nothing installed, either, except Chrome and Firefox, but yet out of the box the thing does nothing but constantly thrash the hard drive, refuse to sleep, and blow out hot air. I guess Superfetch is never satisfied, but I almost took a hammer to that fucking machine more than once after hearing its hard drive chatter for hours while the damn thing was sitting unused, heating my office with the hot air it fucking constantly blows. I loved the bonus irony of only getting 75 minutes runtime off a full battery charge while it is on "Battery Saver" mode.
It is literally the worst laptop I have ever owned, and I expected it to be the best.
Just thought one good anecdote deserved another, you know.