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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:36PM (#17304654)
C# doesn’t easily compile to the web. This is why they are rewriting office 365 in the first place right?
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by privacypoller on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:47PM (#17304768)
They just demoed running a winforms app in the browser using .NET CORE so maybe it would be less work/more successful to explore this path instead of trying to somehow re-implement the oxygen-sucking monster that is Excel using only the "new hotness (tm)".

I bet this is only the new stuff like Delve and the less functional, more social apps/components. I can't imagine how they could pull this off for a full version of Excel or even Word or PP..

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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:09PM (#17305014)
They are doing some of those tricks now with the current office 365. I assume they just want to migrate away from those tricks because they have drawbacks.

Besides, office currently isn’t written. In .net, they would be migrating away from C++ code.

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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by naikrovek on Thursday June 14, 2018 @09:48PM (#17316912)
Really? Is there a link to this demo anywhere? Seems neat
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by LarryDarrell on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:45PM (#17304753)
WebAssembly?
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:08PM (#17305005)
DOM access?
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