CNET's Dan Ackerman probably can't wait to download Microsoft Office as soon as he reads this.
Sarah Tew/CNETPosted on 01/24/2019 8:47:43 PM PST by dayglored
Now you can download Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and OneDrive from Apple. No Clippy though.
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.
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, they're available on the Mac App Store as well, making it even easier for people to download and use.
"We love the idea of the App Store being the specific place for Mac apps," Jared Spataro, the corporate vice president of Microsoft 365, said in an interview. CNET's Dan Ackerman probably can't wait to download Microsoft Office as soon as he reads this.
The move is the latest example of Microsoft expanding beyond its once-obsession with Windows, its monopoly-making software that powers nine out of 10 PCs on the planet. Over the past five years since Satya Nadella was named its new CEO, the company has increasingly become more friendly with its rivals. That includes Microsoft releasing a version of Microsoft Office for iPhones and iPads, and bringing more apps like the Visual Studio coding tools to the Mac.
With Office for Mac, Microsoft is doing more than merely bringing its popular apps to the Mac App Store. The Mac App Store will also update the downloaded apps automatically, and you'll be able to buy a subscription to the Office software using your Apple ID and Mac App Store account instead of paying Microsoft directly, if you prefer. (Existing Office for Mac users can merely download the software and log in to their Office accounts to use them).
See I’m a visionary. I truly think as the demand for the features in LibreOffice to improve it will get done. More Linux users, more demand. Developers will take heed and get back to work on it if the feature requests and donations start coming back in again.
It has stalled is all, it just needs a kickstart. The minor issues in all this software for Linux can be repaired in very short order. All we need to do is show and convey interest for them to be improved and it will come. And we all win. Starts with user base! :)
Hey, did you know that the Libreoffice that came packed with this cinnamon will open MS word .docx files? I just went and grabbed a couple to try it from my windows partition files to try it.
I think it is cool that while in Linux you can go grab your windows files from out of the windows folders when you have it dual boot like this.
Ditto...
I remember the Wizard as being only during the installation and/or first time it runs. Win2000 and maybe? WinXP.
Or maybe that was the Einstein character. Been a while :-)
Yeah, Open/LibreOffice has had the ability to open and save Office 2007 format files (the ones ending in “x”) for many years. They default to the “Open Document” formats, but you can select Office 2007 format.
It doesn't "run out of the cloud." It's a local application that validates the license over the Internet. It will run with all of its features on a machine with no Internet connection, at least for a while (I think it has to check in with the mothership every 30 days or so).
Software as a subscription service has its pluses and minuses. In a corporate environment, it's a lot easier to make sure everyone stays on the same version, and it's a lot easier than managing licenses separately on hundreds of PCs. The total cost is about the same as if you bought the stand-alone version of every upgrade (which most users and companies didn't, which is why the subscription model is good for the publisher).
I don't see that genie going back into the bottle. Adobe isn't offering stand-alone versions of its Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) or "Document Cloud" (Acrobat Pro) any more. At least for now, it's limited to apps that have a more-or-less monopoly in their segment, but I expect to see more of it.
I wonder if I need to uninstall O365 before installing it from the App Store. I do like the idea of rolling its updates in with the rest of the App Store updates, because Microsoft’s updater is craptactular.
Anticipating the comments, I use Office because my clients use it, and someone else pays for it. I use iWork when I have the choice.
Mac users at work have been using Office 365 for over a year. The PC users are just now making the switch from Office 2013.
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