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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.
Bring back News for Nerds.
Otherwise it's just more business as usual.
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.)
Not âoewantâ, but âoeunfortunately needâ.
No. Quite the opposite
...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!
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.
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?
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