Microsoft Office Now Available On All Chromebooks (theverge.com)

Microsoft has reportedly finished testing out its Office apps on Chromebooks as a number of Chromebooks are now seeing the Office apps in the Google Play Store. Samsung's Chromebook Pro, Acer's Chromebook 15, and Acer's C771 have the Office apps available for download. The Verge reports: The apps are Android versions of Office which include the same features you'd find on an Android tablet running Office. Devices like Asus' Chromebook Flip (with a 10.1-inch display) will get free access to Office on Chrome OS, but larger devices will need a subscription. Microsoft has a rule across Windows, iOS, and Android hardware that means devices larger than 10.1 inches need an Office 365 subscription to unlock the ability to create, edit, or print documents.

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Re:Wow!

[Bert64]

If you need 100% compatibility you have to be running the exact same version, on the exact same hardware and configured to use the exact same printer... In practice, 100% compatibility is never achieved with the msoffice files and you can just get varying degrees of compatibility depending what you're doing... In some instances, libreoffice actually does a better job of opening files and in some it doesn't. The only real difference is that people are conditioned to accept the incompatibilities and bugs with msoffice so they overlook them.