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Microsoft's New Office App for Windows 10 is Coming To All Office Users For Free (zdnet.com)
Microsoft has been looking for ways to simplify the way users log into Office and find their documents via its Office.com portal. On December 19, the company is taking another step in this area by introducing something it's calling simply the Office app for Windows 10. ZDNet: This new Office app is the successor to the existing "My Office" app that's already available to Windows users. Starting today, Windows Insider testers in the Fast ring can download this new app to test it and it will roll out to all Windows 10 users "soon," officials said. My Office allows users to find and install all their Office 356 subscription-related components from a single place. It allows users to view and edit their recent documents, find tips, see their subscription benefits and more. The coming free Office for Windows 10 app can be used in conjunction with any Office variant -- Office 365 Commercial, Office 365 Consumer, a perpetual version of Office (like Office 2016 and 2019) or the web-based Office Online.
What the F is this crap?
Not really interested in that feature. Is it optional?
That is still twice of the price of LibreOffice and four times the price of Google Docs.
FFS keep your own goddamned documents in your own goddamned computer.
Also delete Windows and install Linux so you're not being spied on constantly and having control of your own hardware subverted.
It’s an app to manage your subscriptions from Microsoft. It better be free. This is like saying the Steam application is free for download.
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Pssst: his goal is to help Trump get reelected and push people away from Slashdot at the same time. Don't interrupt.
Why not use... Oh I dunno... the MICROSOFT STORE? That POS app that should be the store front for all downloadable windows apps but is next to impossible to use to actually FIND anything (let alone purchase).
I was sort of hoping to get working email. Is that included with this?
Most people don't charge anyone for their poops.
Why should Microsoft be any different?
Psst - Trump is going to prison, not re-election. Don't interrupt Mueller, he's carving Trump Jr. a nice prison dildo for Christmas.
It is not free. It requires the Store and a MS account.
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Write it in markdown then convert it to docx using pandoc. much easier and quicker
Great! I'm running XP and Office 95. Send me my CD!
Chaos maximizes locally around me.
I'd say fresh raw drippy taco bell turds are better than the polished turds.
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Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
No Web Integration, or collaborative services.
If someone emails me a document I can open it up, edit it, or create a new document and save it. I just want the feature that came in office 2007 (Office 95 actually but I want to open the new file format)
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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It's uninstallable.
As someone who's trying to save myself trouble by buying volume license Office, these preinstalled "Store" versions of Office are the devil. The store office apparently doesn't respect windows default printer settings, as I found out earlier. Word and Outlook have tons of random glitches unless you run the office removal tool and only run the exact version you want and nothing else. Oh and BTW the store version of office is installed per user, so even if you fix one user by gutting out this garbage it'll still affect the next user who sits down at the PC. Office 2007 and 2010 weren't perfect by any means, but but this click-to-run/Store horseshit has never ever worked right. WTF was wrong with using MSI installers and the (relatively) robust windows update architecture for your flagship program? Office 2016/2019 has wasted days of my time with stupid bullshit in the last 2 months.
Don't even get me started on fucking licensing bullshit.
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The only way this works is if the product is free for the user and they subject you to ads and steal your personal info even more and even then you have to compete with google's office suite.
Looking forward to learning about who they they are selling your info to.
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Cancer is also free. Doesn't mean I want it.
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it's great software. it's free. It's cross-platform. https://www.libreoffice.org/
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Outlook.com
The mail app + Outlook.com if it's not in there.
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From the screens shots of the new Windows Build (18305) just out, yes, Outlook in some form is included in the "app". You might install the latest Insider build on some computer if you really need to know how it works.
There haven't been any useful new features for decades.
IMHV, Lotus SmartSuite has been the epitome, and with a bit of polish, still would be.
But any old Office suite would be OK.
Beware though, as LibreOffice et al have BETTER support for old MS Office files, than newer MS Office versions themselves!
And if your old Office doesn't run on newer Windows, it will run well on Wine on Linux, since that was always the first thing that Wine developers worked on, when a new version came out.
I gave up on semi-pro software though.
Haskell and Python are my Excel,
Scribus and Tex are my Word,
and I don't need PowerPoint since I use Godot professionally anyway.
I am always amused by all those "Baby Microsoft Offices" apps that Microsoft puts out online and in various app stores. Everyone using Office knows that there is The Real Microsoft Office (the Windows Desktop app), which is guaranteed to open documents perfectly (macros, animations, binary blobs, scripts and whatnot included), and "Baby Microsoft Offices" which are not guaranteed to do that. And for that reason, most people use The Real Microsoft Office exclusively. BTW I am not in favour of putting junk (like the stuff I mentioned) above in documents, but if you are sent an important document having them, you have no choice but to open it. By not having a clear XML standard, Microsoft has painted themselves in a corner.
If users need help logging on and finding files and Microsoft is building desktop apps to help them do that then they must be doing something really wrong. I can't say as I've never been on there. I don't have a lot of need for office applications and when I need something done I turn to either the Apple apps (Pages and Numbers) or Libre Office.
Yay! A trendy new free app to help me give all my personal data to someone else so I can start renting it back from them!