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Microsoft Office Lands on the Mac App Store (cnet.com)
The next time you open up a new Apple computer, go to the App Store to start downloading apps, and type in "Microsoft Office," you'll actually get something. From a report: Until now, anyone who wanted to use Microsoft Office and its popular Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps had to do so by going to Microsoft's website and downloading it all from there. Now, the are available on the Mac App Store as well, making it even easier for people to download and use.
The "App" is probably just a stub that downloads the real thing from Microsoft's servers.
Otherwise it's just more business as usual.
Yeah... a 4.1 GB "stub" - for sure.
Beware of the Leopard.
How do you set up authorized users?
Yay, other OSes finally seem to get package managers.
Except, of course, they need to support organized crime, by allowing criminals to take real money that we actually had to work for each time, while they can only do Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and hand us another worthless (because infinitely abundant) copy.
Imagine you could just lay your cash on the copier, and demand that people work for you, each time you give them some of your funny money. Imagine you could add insult to injury, by attackint them with "I worked *hard* for that money! And work should be paid! You rapist seafaring thugs!" when they do not play along, ams sue them for a bazillion dollars too!
Thanks, but my software gets released under the "NO LICENSE" license only. Which normatively states that nobody can do anything with it, and non-notmatively states that it is implied that people will ignore imaginary artificial scarcity monopoly privilege ("copyright") anyway.
(And where I will not prosecute anyone for copying my software... unless they do such acts themselves. In that case I will use the license to fuckin ruin them.)
Who cares about Microsoft anymore? I sure don't.
"Microsoft Office Lands on the Mac App Store"
The important thing to mention is that a renowned IT clerk living in San Jose and working for a 3 letter agency in Palo Alto applying 2 years worth of security patches during the government shutdown is soon going to land on planet Mars, thanks to our president executive order.
Not âoewantâ, but âoeunfortunately needâ.
No. Quite the opposite
CROFLOL! Even if we manage to build a rocket big enough to carry him, there is no way he is going to be able to survive the liftoff acceleration.
We may very well need to build a space elevator first to smooth out the ascension.
...that Microsoft is somehow evil for doing this, just because. Or that Apple is evil. Or that Microsoft and Apple are being co-operatively evil. Or something.
Downmodding is the refuge of the weak. Don't downmod, make a better argument!
Hahaha mars has no atmosphere but what about just a nice kindle for the beach? Seriously if you are just adding a user for an existing license that is not used just add them. If you want to replace or otherwise add a user and you have no license to do so well, that is above the average persons pay grade
These App store "apps" require a 365 subscription. They are not the downloadable non-subscription versions that Microsoft made available recently. The in-app purchases seem to be for the 365 subscription.
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
WTF? come on M$, seriously. port Visio to Mac.
All the more reason to run the thing in a VM, its own nice little padded cell.
Don't you figure Apple get's a cut from offering it in the Mac App store? I typically just download from the source rather then a third party. Microsoft does the same with its store, only I think it takes much less of a cut then Apple.
If you want to replace or otherwise add a user and you have no license to do so well, that is above the average persons pay grade
According to him, average pay grade for IT workers is 50K a year in Sicilicon Valley!
Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt that he left them alone with APK.
The thing to do for him: post more videos :)
Yea I want Office on the Debian APT repository.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
OneNote has been available on the Mac App Store almost as long as there's been a Mac App Store.
The last time I updated my Word suite (still the shittiest WP program out there) it updated me to 365 and nagged me for a CC #. Fuck you MS. I rolled back to a prior version and turned off updates. The only thing worse than being forced to use Word is to pay for it every month.....
Interesting how the in-app pricing (Personal=$69.99, Home=$99.99) differs from the price on Microsoft's website (Personal=$59.99, Home=$79.99).
I didn't think Apple allowed that?
That's 4.1 GB of EULA with a massive I Agree button.
Mac App Store? I vaguely remember something like that from a few years ago. IIRC it was full of cheap games and crappy apps. I just turned off gatekeeper and forgot about it. Did they bring it back or something?
Posted from my Macbook Pro running macOS 10.14 Mohave
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
So mac for the office
Do they also serve big mac?
does it come with cheese?
If there is mac for office is it then mac and cheese or just mac?
On the other hand.. I really like the double big tasty bacon and that is not called mac at all...
If mc Donalds had bumped up proces tenfold like Apple then they would not sell a single BIG mac
Maybe why they have No burgers with sheep meat?
Not Even in the mac angus laddie
Apple is the fastfood of the IT world ... except they cost ten times that if actual real and usefull equipment